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Old hardware

Posted: 03 Jul 2013, 20:10
by Bigprv
I am currently running a dell laptop 5000e ppm 450 mhz p3 running the latest porteus desktop rc 2.1 and i am just about able to do everything on my pc. only issue is trying to stream movies as i need to update the flash that comes with it so i can watch some streams. any idea. web browsers i am running are firefox and google chrome modules.

Re: Old hardware

Posted: 03 Jul 2013, 22:48
by donald
Bigprv wrote:I am currently running a dell laptop 5000e ppm 450 mhz p3
Adobe dropped support of processors without SSE2 on Linux
(you can check with "grep ^flags /proc/cpuinfo" the letters "sse2"
should be in the list)

Re: Old hardware

Posted: 04 Jul 2013, 23:12
by francois
Is this answer satisfying or you would like to have more? :)

Re: Old hardware

Posted: 04 Jul 2013, 23:33
by donald
@francois

the (maybe) more satisfying answer is already there:

http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=2218

Re: Old hardware

Posted: 05 Jul 2013, 13:25
by francois
Thanks.