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yeah, I need to remove the panel and see what memory is actually installed guessing the memory would be relatively inexpensive depending on how hard it it is to find running conky to keep an eye on what's currently going on with the cpu and ram and having fun seeing an old machine go at it! have a g...

and...it's already Sunday evening quick update to say several shutdowns/reboots and puppy Xenial 32 bit version 7.5 going strong I downloaded the devxsfs file, installed firefox (which has been able to do more tasks than the other browsers thus far, in fact I have succesfully ordered grubhub food de...

Goodmorning (here it's 6:15 a.m.) and happy Friday! Thank you for the link to the 32 bit collection. Is also good to know I may be able to run the 64 bit OS as well. When I first looked up the specs on this laptop it showed that it should be expandable to 2 gb of ram...so, maybe at some point I will...

I guess the main reason for installing the 64 bit OS, is that you have more software available? This is an Acer Aspire 3680 and is running quite well using the Xenial 32 bit 7.5, so I will probably keep to it for now, though I will at least live boot the Bionicpup DVD to check it out. For sure one g...

@bigpup, @mikewalsh Thanks guys! So, my assumption is that this Acer laptop is too old to run 64 bit. I installed the 32 bit Xenialpup 7.5 Will definitely install the updates. I actually ran Ubuntu 22.04 on another system that I used daily at home for a good year (was too lazy to replace the power s...

Hello puppy linux. First of all, not gonna tell you how many times I failed to answer the signup question correctly even after googling the answer. LOL Used many, many versions of puppy a few years back (and still have a collection of burned CD/DVD's to show for it) and recently got an ancient Acer ...