Hi all! I am new here!

brianbonner · 02-02-2017, 08:07 PM

I just wanted to say hello to everyone, I am a newbie here, but not new to linux. I have been working with computers since i was a child; I'm now 54.

I have tried every distro i could find and all had their strengths, but I settled on linux mint and Puppy Linux(for old computers)!

Anyway i am sure to have questions from time to time

Puppy Linux http://www.puppylinux.org/main/Overv...%20Started.htm

Lawn Ranger · 02-02-2017, 08:53 PM

Hi, Brian.

I just joined as well as we're about the same age. More experience with hardware than software. Just build a new machine with Mint 18.1 and love it. The machine it replaced is 17 years old and running XP. Perhaps PuppyLinux should replace XP...

brianbonner · 02-02-2017, 09:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Lawn Ranger

Hi, Brian.

I just joined as well as we're about the same age. More experience with hardware than software. Just build a new machine with Mint 18.1 and love it. The machine it replaced is 17 years old and running XP. Perhaps PuppyLinux should replace XP...

How much memory? what processor?

Lawn Ranger · 02-02-2017, 09:52 PM

Oh, boy. I'll have to think back a few years...

Old machine - 32-bit 2GHz single-core AMD w/8G RAM. A real screamer in its day.

New machine - Asus 990FX R2.0 with AMD FX 8350 8-core, 4GHz (water cooled), 32G RAM, SSD for Mint 18.1 and two 2TB enterprise RAID10 drives for file storage.

frankbell · 02-02-2017, 10:13 PM

Welcome to LQ.

Lawn Ranger · 02-02-2017, 10:38 PM

Thanks, Frank.

Looks to be a fun ride with all the folks here. I look forward to the learning and tutoring I might provide with my newfound Linux users.

ardvark71 · 02-03-2017, 12:36 AM

Hello and welcome to the forum, I'd be curious to know what computers you were working with as a child, I'm guessing in the late 1960's and 1970's.

linustalman · 02-03-2017, 04:21 AM

Welcome BB.

rtmistler · 02-03-2017, 06:26 AM

Hi brianbonner and welcome to LQ!

MikefromRamsbottom · 02-03-2017, 07:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Lawn Ranger

Hi, Brian.

I just joined as well as we're about the same age. More experience with hardware than software. Just build a new machine with Mint 18.1 and love it. The machine it replaced is 17 years old and running XP. Perhaps PuppyLinux should replace XP...

Hello chaps. I have been directed to introduce myself before I can answer someone's question! So, here I am, seventy, bald and hailing from the People's' Republic of Ramsbottom. I am writing this on a 2005 HP desktop running Ubuntu 16.04.
I would suggest that you could keep your old XP machine in service with SolusOS. I've just put Solus onto a USB stick (using the Windows programme from 'pendrivelinux.com' and tried it on my laptop. It has everything built into it and just works 'out of the box'. Give it a try!

ardvark71 · 02-03-2017, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by MikefromRamsbottom

Hello chaps. I have been directed to introduce myself before I can answer someone's question! So, here I am, seventy, bald and hailing from the People's' Republic of Ramsbottom.

Hello and welcome. Pretty socialistic there, I take it?

Regards...