Unusual/custom hardware

This is Roofy.
She was build in 2008. I found her in my father'sattic 7 years ago. I liked her (tiny) size and decided to dust her off and power her on...

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Even back then, she was hoplessly outdated. A first generation netbook, she was struggling to run the bloat (and virus?) ridden copy of XP that she came with.
I got a new battery and wiped her little hard disk before installing debian. She now has absolutely disgusting battery life of 7h+.
Her d-key is broken but I could permanently rebind it to another key by editing one line in a text document (thanks loonix).

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Due to her stamina, high reliability and compact size, she is the ideal travel companion. Wherever I traveled I took her and lended her to people who didn't bring their own. She has sent a thousand e-mails all over the globe, shared Gigabytes of pictures and played music of ears of all kinds.

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Of course, she has gotten a few blemishes over the years.

Today, it's time for her second wipe and OS installation.
What should I install?
Thinking debian + LXDE again.

Anyone?

kek. Your phone has greater processing power than your laptop.

and a better resolution and more RAM

RIP RASHAD

I had a S10. But a black one.
Cute little things.

Made for a nifty little Hackintosh laptop.

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>naming your computer and referring it with female pronouns
this is a new kind of autism

Fucking gay

It could run that?

I had one laptop like that, but I think mine was an Asus. Same spec by the way. I remember using GNOME2 with compiz on that thing.

I would go with Debian + herbstluftwm/i3/cwm. Or maybe you can try NetBSD (they've released recently NetBSD 8) or OpenBSD.

Leopard ran pretty smoothly, I can't remember if I had to swap out the WLAN card or not, but I did manage to get it running 100%. Leopard was on it's way out already though back in 2010/2011 when I used the S10 with it, but for browsing and such it was fine.

I love my stack of S10es.

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Why do you hoard old shit?

I never see you shitpost on /retro/ threads, why don't you shitpost there about old thing also?

>tfw you bought a teklife shirt from ashes57 in 2014 and they never shipped you anything

>wiped her little hard disk
No offense, but this is creeping me out a little bit.

Just doing my duty and contributing to the continued survival of life on earth by recycling e-waste.
Also the S10e is nice because they're solid enough you don't need to worry about breaking them while away from home and cheap enough that if they get lost it doesn't matter.

You've seen nothing, wait until you see grown ass men posting pictures about their pre-teen daughters and callimg them "lolis".
Yes, on Jow Forums.

Debian + icewm

put them all to mine some cpu based crypto (Monero), BAM moneys

came in to say this. OP must be lonely

Sounds like a good way to start a fire.
50% of the performance of a Pentium 4, at 5% of the power usage!

What OS are you running on those?

I do that too... They are machines with souls, your companions, they deserve care and a name.

From top to bottom, Haiku, Debian, OpenBSD and Windows XP

>at 5% of the power usage!

thats even better, you can have them on all the day mining without worrying about energy consuption

btw, do they overheat? i dont have one, im curious

>implying gtards are capable of having marriages / children

Does anyone remember the 'cool & spicy' netbook meme?

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You'd be surprised.

>Unusual/custom hardware
>posts a generic netbook

They'll get pretty toasty under OpenBSD if you close them, but they're otherwise fine.
Naturally, stacking makes heat issues much worse.

Honestly didnt know it was so common.
Which one runs best?

>Naturally, stacking makes heat issues much worse.

oh, true

install gentoo

I bought one in '15 and got it pretyt quickly plus some of these stickers for free.

Cute. I still use the Asus equivalent of this. Needs a new keyboard and a battery though.

Debian or Windows XP are the fastest, due to either being more mature or from much earlier, but Haiku is much smoother from the end-user - my - perspective.

Weeaboo.
>inb4 'anime board' (i can say what i want, not against the rules, and i will call you a filthy basement dwelling weeb)

>>inb4 'anime board' (i can say what i want, not against the rules, and i will call you a filthy basement dwelling weeb)
Doesn't make you look any less stupid.

I bet you don't even listen to Death Grips.

You think I don't but I do.

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Ah, good ol' Artificial Death.
NLDW is my second fave, but i'm more of a NotM guy.
Big Dipper is the greatest song of all time man.

What about pre-Netbook "netbooks"?

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Install NetBSD 8 and use binary packages, you don't want to be compiling packages on that hardware. Maybe install JWM or LXDE as desktop

>intel atom
i think it's time to put her out of her misery

>Windows
just die

What else are you going to play your DOS games on... Linux?

>sudo apt-get install dosbox

That's a x86 emulator, not even virtualization.
I'm sure it's just a great idea to run a x86 emulator on a 233MHz Pentium MMX for things it's already compatible to do natively.

Let's be honest here, playing old games and using SSH are the primary reasons to even use a laptop this vintage and niche.

If you unironically think this then you're probably a pedo who needs jailed

There's absolutely nothing wrong with being a pedofile.

everyone is, even you.

When you die the devil will teach you otherwise you sick fuck.

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>illegal in most countries
Nah there's no reason for that.

Can't wait to have a anal threesome with the Devil and you, Fami.

this

i remember being a kid and the stores were absolutely full with these things

and probably a better keyboard

SLEEP TIGHT, COMFY SUN

SLEEP TIGHT, COMFY SUN!

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> 1.4 mb for one Instagram meme

i used to have one of these. great form factor

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say, those are some nice digits my man

>being a bandwidthlet (or hiro sucker)

Debian + i3 or Debian + icewm like said. A proper DE looks to heavy for that laptop's RAM

SLEEP TIGHT, COMFY SUN

SLEEP TIGHT, COMFY SUN

she still is running today, the battery even still works

netbooks was/are based

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Explain.

>more than 2 months of uptime

Are you actually using this thing in 2018

anime website

this

Sometimes there are biological barriers or problems to having offspring.

have you tried not being gay

Being a faggot is a mental illness and not a biological barrier....

SLEEP TIGHT, COMFY SUN

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is that you, yukichan

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>just die
no u summerkid

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Fix the D key.

bump

CloverOS

But Vista was released in 2006, why would they make a laptop 2 years after Vista, and put XP on it.

Well actually I guess that makes sense. Vista did suck quite a bit.

SLEEP TIGHT, COMFY SUN

Picked up a 2.5" thick ThinkPad 385CD for one dollar on Craigslist.
Couldn't find too much info on them. But it does work, and has 95' on it.

Originally got it to replace the hardware with modern parts, 1.34" is enough space for quite a bit of things. But it's still intact, I kinda felt bad that it's survived all this time, so I didn't want to kill it.

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SLEEP TIGHT, COMFY SUN

"Unusual/custom hardwarew"
>posts a netbook
You must be very young if you don't remember this phase

Vista did get some somewhat mainstream press regarding performance issues so you did see new stuff with XP after a while before 7 came out. Given the shitty CPU in all netbooks this made sense at the time

Sleep tight, comfy sun

>running Linux/BSD on hardware that old
enjoy your slower than shit childishly named toy distro and pathetically tiny pool of abandoned "lightweight" applications that look like shit and have no features

other than server use there's absolutely no reason to not use a contemporary software stack on systems like that in 2018 with how easy it is to get commercial abandonware

I have an equally old Thinkbad, but the problem is the battery is dead and there's no new batteries out there for it

What the fuck do I do? Is there a way to ghetto rig a new battery for it?

could try to repack the battery or just, you know, run it on the AC adapter