![]() Xubuntu installed to the ancient IDE hard drive took 45 seconds to a minute to boot and ran kinda choppy. Modern Puppies took very long time to boot up, ran ok, browser choppy. A cantankerous DVDrom drive that is really picky about home burned dvds, didnt help. I am on metered data on cell hotspot so it really costs ME for all this nonsense unless I block it. They want to use your resources and bandwidth to collect your data and sell it for profit. Both ran nice, neither could support a modern full featured browser and IMHO, its pretty mandatory to be able to use extensions like NO-SCRIPT or Ghostery plus an ad blocker and self deleting cookie app so minimalist browsers not really very practical. It was from the early XP days and I had at some point put a small unofficial n-lited version of XP called TinyXP on it (last SP3 version of full bloated XP too much for it) and some old version of Puppy Linux. ![]() Last I used it, think it was pretty much as ebook reader. Yea, its really a tough old thing, refuses to die though I hadnt regularly used it in some years. Somebody on another forum mentioning this browser problem for XP. It has a 1.5ghz pentium M single core and its maxxed out at 1.25GB RAM. I have a Panasonic Toughbook CF-50 circa 2002. ![]()
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