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Linux latest Distros and Older Laptops or Notebooks
I have a old laptop (below features) so decided upgrade hardware with SSD 120Gb and install OS linux latest version Debian 10 distro mate.
My wrong was install latest version and environment desktop supported for this one. I supposed this will be worked but testing the laptop the interface graphics is slowly.
Which one OS Distro Linux recommend for this model of laptop?
I hope your help!!!
Thansk.
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Summary
Computer
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Summary
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-Computer-
Processor : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N450 @ 1.66GHz
Memory : 2032MB (985MB used)
Machine Type : Notebook
Operating System : Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Thu 19 Nov 2020 06:35:42 PM CST
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x600 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa DRI Intel(R) Pineview M
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Audio Devices-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
-Input Devices-
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
Lid Switch
Sleep Button
Power Button
Power Button
Video Bus
SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
PC Speaker
USB2.0 UVC VGA WebCam: USB2.0 U
HDA Digital PCBeep
HDA Intel Mic
HDA Intel Headphone
-Printers-
No printers found
Operating System
----------------
-Version-
Kernel : Linux 4.19.0-12-amd64 (x86_64)
Version : #1 SMP Debian 4.19.152-1 (2020-10-18)
C Library : GNU C Library / (Debian GLIBC 2.28-10) 2.28
Distribution : Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
-Current Session-
Computer Name : asus-eee
User Name : root (root)
Language : en_US.UTF-8 (en_US.UTF-8)
Home Directory : /root
-Misc-
Uptime : 12 hours 47 minutes
Load Average : 0.69, 0.84, 1.46
Available entropy in /dev/random : 3758 bits (healthy)
Kernel Modules
--------------
-Loaded Modules-
hid_generic : HID generic driver
usbhid : USB HID core driver
hid
fuse : Filesystem in Userspace
ip6t_REJECT : Xtables: packet "rejection" target for IPv6
nf_reject_ipv6
ipt_REJECT : Xtables: packet "rejection" target for IPv4
nf_reject_ipv4
xt_multiport : Xtables: multiple port matching for TCP, UDP, UDP-Lite, SCTP and DCCP
xt_cgroup : Xtables: process control group matching
xt_mark : Xtables: packet mark operations
xt_owner : Xtables: socket owner matching
xt_tcpudp : Xtables: TCP, UDP and UDP-Lite match
nft_compat
nft_counter
nft_chain_route_ipv6
nft_chain_route_ipv4
nft_chain_nat_ipv6
nf_nat_ipv6
nft_chain_nat_ipv4
nf_nat_ipv4
nf_nat
nf_conntrack
nf_defrag_ipv6
nf_defrag_ipv4
libcrc32c : CRC32c (Castagnoli) calculations
nf_tables
nfnetlink
ctr : CTR Counter block mode
ccm : Counter with CBC MAC
arc4 : ARC4 Cipher Algorithm
ath9k : Support for Atheros 802.11n wireless LAN cards.
ath9k_common : Shared library for Atheros wireless 802.11n LAN cards.
ath9k_hw : Support for Atheros 802.11n wireless LAN cards.
ath : Shared library for Atheros wireless LAN cards.
mac80211 : IEEE 802.11 subsystem
snd_hda_codec_realtek : Realtek HD-audio codec
snd_hda_codec_generic : Generic HD-audio codec parser
uvcvideo : USB Video Class driver
videobuf2_vmalloc : vmalloc memory handling routines for videobuf2
videobuf2_memops : common memory handling routines for videobuf2
cfg80211 : wireless configuration support
snd_hda_intel : Intel HDA driver
videobuf2_v4l2 : Driver helper framework for Video for Linux 2
videobuf2_common : Media buffer core framework
snd_hda_codec : HDA codec core
videodev : Device registrar for Video4Linux drivers v2
snd_hda_core : HD-audio bus
media : Device node registration for media drivers
snd_hwdep : Hardware dependent layer
snd_pcm : Midlevel PCM code for ALSA.
coretemp : Intel Core temperature monitor
asus_wmi : Asus Generic WMI Driver
joydev : Joystick device interfaces
sg : SCSI generic (sg) driver
sparse_keymap : Generic support for sparse keymaps
wmi_bmof : WMI embedded Binary MOF driver
serio_raw : Raw serio driver
pcspkr : PC Speaker beeper driver
snd_timer : ALSA timer interface
iTCO_wdt : Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver
rfkill : RF switch support
snd : Advanced Linux Sound Architecture driver for soundcards.
iTCO_vendor_support : Intel TCO Vendor Specific WatchDog Timer Driver Support
soundcore : Core sound module
pcc_cpufreq : Processor Clocking Control interface driver
evdev : Input driver event char devices
ac : ACPI AC Adapter Driver
battery : ACPI Battery Driver
acpi_cpufreq : ACPI Processor P-States Driver
ip_tables : IPv4 packet filter
x_tables : {ip,ip6,arp,eb}_tables backend module
autofs4
ext4 : Fourth Extended Filesystem
crc16 : CRC16 calculations
mbcache : Meta block cache (for extended attributes)
jbd2
crc32c_generic : CRC32c (Castagnoli) calculations wrapper for lib/crc32c
fscrypto
ecb : ECB block cipher algorithm
crypto_simd
cryptd : Software async crypto daemon
glue_helper
aes_x86_64 : Rijndael (AES) Cipher Algorithm, asm optimized
sd_mod : SCSI disk (sd) driver
i915 : Intel Graphics
ahci : AHCI SATA low-level driver
libahci : Common AHCI SATA low-level routines
libata : Library module for ATA devices
psmouse : PS/2 mouse driver
scsi_mod : SCSI core
ehci_pci : EHCI PCI platform driver
i2c_algo_bit : I2C-Bus bit-banging algorithm
uhci_hcd : USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
ehci_hcd : USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
drm_kms_helper : DRM KMS helper
i2c_i801 : I801 SMBus driver
usbcore
lpc_ich : LPC interface for Intel ICH
atl1c : Qualcomm Atheros 100/1000M Ethernet Network Driver
mfd_core
drm : DRM shared core routines
usb_common
thermal : ACPI Thermal Zone Driver
wmi : ACPI-WMI Mapping Driver
video : ACPI Video Driver
button : ACPI Button Driver
Boots
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-Boots-
Thu Nov 19 05:47 : 4.19.0-12-amd64
Wed Nov 18 11:36 : 4.19.0-12-amd64
Wed Nov 18 10:54 : 4.19.0-12-amd64
Wed Nov 18 08:48 : 4.19.0-12-amd64
Wed Nov 18 02:18 : 4.19.0-12-amd64
Languages
---------
-Available Languages-
en_US.utf8 : English locale for the USA
C.UTF-8 : C locale
Filesystems
-----------
-Mounted File Systems-
udev /dev 0.00 % (965.4 MiB of 965.4 MiB)
tmpfs /run 5.54 % (187.5 MiB of 198.4 MiB)
/dev/sda1 / 10.92 % (95.8 GiB of 107.6 GiB)
tmpfs /dev/shm 2.01 % (972.2 MiB of 992.2 MiB)
tmpfs /run/lock 0.08 % (5.0 MiB of 5.0 MiB)
tmpfs /sys/fs/cgroup 0.00 % (992.2 MiB of 992.2 MiB)
tmpfs /run/user/1000 0.03 % (198.4 MiB of 198.4 MiB)
Display
-------
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x600 pixels
Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
Version : 1.20.4
Current Display Name : :0.0
-Monitors-
Monitor 0 : 1024x600 pixels
-OpenGL-
Vendor : Intel Open Source Technology Center
Renderer : Mesa DRI Intel(R) Pineview M
Version : 1.4 Mesa 18.3.6
Direct Rendering : Yes
-Extensions-
Composite
DAMAGE
DOUBLE-BUFFER
DPMS
DRI2
GLX
Generic Event Extension
MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
MIT-SHM
Present
RANDR
RECORD
RENDER
SECURITY
SHAPE
SYNC
X-Resource
XC-MISC
XFIXES
XFree86-DGA
XFree86-VidModeExtension
XINERAMA
XInputExtension
XKEYBOARD
XTEST
XVideo
XVideo-MotionCompensation
default screen number: 0
Devices
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Processor
---------
-Processors-
Package Information
Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N450 @ 1.66GHz 0 0:0 1667.00 MHz
Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N450 @ 1.66GHz 1 0:0 1667.00 MHz
Memory
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-Memory-
MemTotal Total Memory 2032072 KiB
MemFree Free Memory 145608 KiB
MemAvailable 644804 KiB
Buffers 83300 KiB
Cached 792652 KiB
SwapCached Cached Swap 2648 KiB
Active 1038388 KiB
Inactive 690264 KiB
Active(anon) 721044 KiB
Inactive(anon) 403004 KiB
Active(file) 317344 KiB
Inactive(file) 287260 KiB
Unevictable 0 KiB
Mlocked 0 KiB
SwapTotal Virtual Memory 2085884 KiB
SwapFree Free Virtual Memory 2055356 KiB
Dirty 31660 KiB
Writeback 0 KiB
AnonPages 843896 KiB
Mapped 287136 KiB
Shmem 271256 KiB
Slab 96520 KiB
SReclaimable 51896 KiB
SUnreclaim 44624 KiB
KernelStack 7264 KiB
PageTables 14236 KiB
NFS_Unstable 0 KiB
Bounce 0 KiB
WritebackTmp 0 KiB
CommitLimit 3101920 KiB
Committed_AS 3333228 KiB
VmallocTotal -1 KiB
VmallocUsed 0 KiB
VmallocChunk 0 KiB
Percpu 768 KiB
HardwareCorrupted 0 KiB
AnonHugePages 114688 KiB
ShmemHugePages 0 KiB
ShmemPmdMapped 0 KiB
HugePages_Total 0
HugePages_Free 0
HugePages_Rsvd 0
HugePages_Surp 0
Hugepagesize 2048 KiB
Hugetlb 0 KiB
DirectMap4k 139840 KiB
DirectMap2M 1947648 KiB
PCI Devices
-----------
-PCI Devices-
Host bridge : Intel Corporation Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx DMI Bridge
VGA compatible controller : Intel Corporation Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Display controller : Intel Corporation Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller
Audio device : Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
PCI bridge : Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
PCI bridge : Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
PCI bridge : Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
USB controller : Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
USB controller : Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
USB controller : Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
USB controller : Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
USB controller : Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
PCI bridge : Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
ISA bridge : Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02)
SATA controller : Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 02) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
SMBus : Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02)
Ethernet controller : Qualcomm Atheros AR8132 Fast Ethernet (rev c0)
Network controller : Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
Sensors
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-Sensors-
../../thermal_zone0/temp1 Temperature 60.00°C
coretemp/temp2 Temperature 54.00°C
thermal/thermal_zone0 Temperature 60.00°C
Last edited by uniquechip; 11-19-2020 at 08:33 PM.
Please surround terminal output with "code" tags, which become available from the menu when you click the "Go Advanced" button beneath the compose/edit post window.
If the primary issue is that the machine is slow, the issue may be having only 2GB RAM; that's marginal with most desktop environments these days. What desktop environment are you using?
Otherwise, please be more precise about what issues you are dealing with.
as frankbell already stated the 2 GB of RAM is likely to the limiting factor. I guess it is not enough for Mate.
There are other lightweight options with Debian.
Please surround terminal output with "code" tags, which become available from the menu when you click the "Go Advanced" button beneath the compose/edit post window.
If the primary issue is that the machine is slow, the issue may be having only 2GB RAM; that's marginal with most desktop environments these days. What desktop environment are you using?
Otherwise, please be more precise about what issues you are dealing with.
as frankbell already stated the 2 GB of RAM is likely to the limiting factor. I guess it is not enough for Mate.
There are other lightweight options with Debian.
It's correct the memory is until 2Gb, I recently switch to lightDM always with MATE and the performance is better but I will install the version Xfce...Thank you.
It's not just the RAM.
This is an old 10" netbook (eeePC), just about everything about it is too slow or too small.
I suspect MATE simply isn't light enough for it, and neither will XFCE be.
I would recommend antiX with a fluxbox desktop. Search distrowatch.com.
BTW, the modern WWW will always be unbearably slow on this netbook, no matter the distro.
1. Debian 10 by default install GDM or GDM3
2. Mate environment works fine with LightDM (DM=Display manager)
3. Installation DM:
Code:
sudo apt install lightdm
4. Reconfigure Display manager:
Code:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm3
and menu select lightdm.
5. Repository add to lines contrib non-free:
Code:
sudo nano /etc/apt/source.list
here sample:
Code:
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=(this number no modify) / ext4 noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=(this number no modify) none swap sw 0 0
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