Hi everyone, was referred here from the Mepis Community Forum. I have an old laptop with Linux Mint 13 on it, which works but is a bit slow. I have tried both MX-14, and MX-8 from live usb's and MX-8 is better in almost every respect (I have never had a computer run so fast) I know it's really old, but can I still use MX-8? I assume my biggest issues would be security and support/updates? This will not be an important laptop, just for word processing (Abiword seems ok, but will LibreOffice work?) playing music and light internet browsing via cable (no banking ect). I would probably not even bother with updates so long as it's working. Thanks.

If it works & you are happy with the older versions of software & possible security risks, go ahead & install/use it. __{{emoticon}}__

N.B. As it is old, you may not be able to upgrade it very easily.

IMHO I would go up to antiX 13.1 and see how she runs on your machine. You may well be surprised.

Thanks guys. My main concern is that if it breaks would I still be able to fix it. I may give 13.1 a try.

Is 13.2 a better bet? And I'm assuming the 386 is the one to go for. Thanks

All you said was you had a old computer. Without knowing exactly what Brand, Model, and Year of it, I simply suggested 13.1 since it will run on older 64MB old PII 266 systems. Once you get it installed, you can go to the Terminal and post"inxi -F" back here for us to see.

Sorry I was a bit vague. It's a HP P4 with 320Mb ram from around 2004.

13.2 32bit will be just fine and dandy on a P4. Ram is a little weak but AntiX 13.2 will live with that.

Make sure you add a swap partition. Keep web browsing to a minimum. Don't use tabs in your browser.

A P4 will work perfectly with 13.2 32 bit, like roky says. And a swap partition will help easing the memory backlogs, like BitJam says. Have fun.

Just ran it as a live session and was quite pleased, have a few questions. Is there any way to set up the touchpad? I am a bit ham-fisted so I always disable tap-to-click on laptops (this is important to me) Secondly, I see no calendar/organiser app. I'm assuming Clawsmail has one but I don't need a mail server. I'm sure I could use Orage calendar or Korganiser from synaptics though? Lastly, how do I set up the swap partition? I'm not very tech-savvy and just use defaults when doing installations. Thanks.

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You will be running Debian so anything you want. Debian will have it. You will only be limited by hardware specs as far as I can tell.
Your specs are almost the Same as my Amrel Toughbook with 512MB of ram.

Thanks, lots of good stuff there. A question re installation, can I use the same password for login and root?

I can not say I have tried that, but I think it will work...

Thanks, I'm too forgetful for multiple passwords.