Can we nail this speed, hardware age HDD vs SSD drives once and for all…?
Lets start with the old girl: - HP G60-120EM Intel® slow T5800 Core™ Duo 2.00Ghz 3.00 GB RAM with Hitachi 2.5 inch SATA 250GiB HDD which has over 130 thousand bad sectors.
Boot time Trisquel v8 34 seconds or v9 encrypted drive 50 seconds. Proof - …
Hard Drive now encrypted v9 installation defaults used - proof…
As we can all see there is no problem and we can see the efficiency of Trisquel in the real world with only 1.1GiB being required with video running - this is what ubuntu and mint need without anything loaded let alone running.
As Mina pointed out @R_G possibly never even read the basics of Trisquel installation as you can read they would recommend mini-Trisquel for such a low spec computer.
Does anybody know how to use and interpret Benchmark…?
@Andy2…On my Trisquel dual boot with Windows Vista, it takes Trisquel 53 seconds to reach a
usable desktop, it takes Vista 43 seconds. Boot time data for Trisquel does not make any sense
unless it is compared to another OS. Really, @Andy2, Trisquel is not Linux saving grace for older
PC’s. If one likes the Trisquel environment, then use it!!!
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Hitachi Travelstar 5K160
Device Model: Hitachi HTS541612J9SA00
Serial Number: SB2D41E4KGVL1E
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 51ef1077e
Firmware Version: SBDOC70P
User Capacity: 120,034,123,776 bytes [120 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13/1532D revision 1
Local Time is: Wed Jan 20 01:36:50 2021 EST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
Dear @4dandl4 Daniel - If not too much trouble could you paste in your computer specification, Trisquel software and version, and a terminal running systemd-analyze screen shot - thanks. Else we do not know what you are referring to.
Quite right, and I would add - fully installed on the same computer too. Thought I had done all that already…? Oh yes fully installed on same Dell E6420 here …
Think we have all been thrown off course by Roger not reading page one and installing full version on slow old 1GiB machine.
Page one says - “Trisquel Mini, a lightweight version for older machines and netbooks. Based on the LXDE desktop environment and a selection of resource-saving applications to bring new life to your hardware…” Not too difficult to understand, is it…?
Would be great if Roger would install this and give computer to a deprived family, school or charity.
@Andy2… Trisquel 9 Review
Read my Trisquel review and it will and it will state my feelings on Trisquel
and all I need to know. Have good day my friend, I will be in the attic
installing a new ac system, wish it was as easy as installing Linux.
Dear @Andy2
i do not know where you got this idea as the Latitude d830 is not 1Gb machine. Please, see what inxi says :
CPU: Dual Core Intel Core2 Duo T7250 (-MCP-) speed/min/max: 798/800/2001
MHz Kernel: 5.8.0-38-generic x86_64 Up: 2h 43m
Mem: 644.8/3922.8 MiB (16.4%)
Storage: 111.79 GiB (8.0% used)
Procs: 161 Shell: Bash inxi: 3.1.07
I am not picking here.
I am using Mint Mate on a ASUS Tek Vento and will not change.
I am also testing and evaluating other distros
on
these 5 machines
1 DELL Latitude D830
1 HP G60-550CA
1 HP p6506f
2 DELL Latitude e4310
I am having troubles when the distro does not fit into the machines.
That is all.
As we can all clearly see I was getting the 1GiB RAM from yourself and Daniel at #17 - this 1GiB RAM shows that you clearly need mini-Trisquel or similar as @Mina and I have advised you. Also…
inxi commands are not recognised on both of my laptops. and I do not wish to modify.
Ah let us have a look to see at which post you highlighted that your D830 was different to the one Cnet tested - and that is because you do not want to look at the facts.
Still at the end of the day it remains a confusing mystery as to how you could install a slick, fast and efficient distro onto a decent Dell and get it to run sooo sloooow…?
@Andy2
While you take that look ( since you need it ) I am about to assert
that the d830 slowly boots because its disk is slow. I am presently investigating this. I must say that the disk was already noisy when I bought the used Latitude d830 back in 2014.
But since I am deaf I did not care.
The Latitude d830 was fabricated in September 2007.
BTW, and FYi, here is the result of the free command :
Hey Roger that is interesting - 501880 used is not bad especially compared to ubuntu-16 at 729592… Old HP G60 at 386000…! @easyt50 Howard has many posts showing LIGHT distros (with supposed LIGHT DE’s) slightly heavier on resources than full Trisquel…
By the way the reason I use that gnulinux web page video for testing isn’t because I’m an addict but it is something everyone can access without the complexities, cookies and scripts of YTube thus providing a level playing field for comparisons. FsF and gnulinux web pages do not use cookies thereby exposing the lie of strictly necessary cookies of other web sites - it’sFOSS included…!
I have not used Kubuntu myself but plenty here at it’sFOSS do use it. Trust you are not using KDE…? I am thinking of taking a quick full installation look at mini-Trisquel on the Dell as I am soon to BleachBit or Format the Dell’s SSD as I have now tested the full monty v9 and have the HP Notebook as my everyday workhorse.
Yes - we both know it does not work - h-node org confirms this…
So did you look at the Think-Penguin dot com Wifi section …? I don’t need Wifi really but would be sure to check out their stuff first as it is tested and guaranteed to work. Think I will raise a Topic on this hardware issue as many people at it’sFOSS seem to have blinkers on when it comes to gnulinux - pity; as the solution is soooooooo easy…
Thank you @Andy2
I have tried all these distro
kubuntu-20.10-desktop-amd64.iso
manjaro-xfce-20.2.1-210103-linux59.iso
linux-lite-5.2-64bit.iso
Linux-Mint 19 (Tessa) MATE-64bit.iso
trisquel_9.0_amd64.iso
pclinuxos64-kde5-magnum-2020.1015.iso
debian-10.7.0-amd64-netinst.iso
archlinux-2021.01.01-x86_64.iso
MX-19.3_x64.iso
on
HP p6506f
HP G60-550AC
2 DELL Latitude e4310
DELL Latitude D830
and the one I daily use is
linuxmint-20-mate-64bit.iso
on ASUS Tek Vento ( no wifi ) just wired via electrical circuit to the router downstairs )
For the moment, I will not pursue this exchange due to our opinionated interest-divergence.
Regards,
and I do not wish to modify.
