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What would you do with a HP Omnibook XE2?

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

Sometimes I bring home old computers like other people bring home stranded pets. I’ve been given from a friend an old HP Omnibook Xe2 laptop. It’s a 333 MHz Celeron based computer with 64MB RAM and a 12′’ screen. It was a decent hardware configuration … twelve years ago. Of course the first question that came up has been: “Can I run Linux on it?”.

 

Wary or Lupu?

 

Speaking of old computers Puppy Linux is probably the most famous solution. Two version are actually available at Puppy’s download page: the Ubuntu-Lucid based “Lupu” (V.5.2.5) and the more traditional “Wary” (5.1.2). I downloaded both but, unfortunately, while testing the distributions in live mode from CD Lupu showed some problem locking the system every now and then. I so went for installing Puppy Linux “Wary”.

 
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