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Hey guys, I am trying to install DBAN on a flash drive following this video's instructions here: View...
May 17, 2024
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The 21 year old GPU obviously features no hardware acceleration for decoding Youtube's AV1 compression (the former VP10 project), VP9 or...
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You can boot directly from a DBAN USB. https://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/
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Ok then, what's the easiest disk wiping utility you guys can recommend for me to wipe the drive please? I am seeing: You can create a...
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For that machine, I would leave it with no OS. Whoever gets it is very likely to be a retro enthusiast, and will want to put whatever...
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Thank you. Would it run youtube videos on whatever it's default browser should be you think? Just thinking ahead for whoever I should...
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Yep, give it a try. It has to be 32-bit because your Pentium M 725 CPU isn't 64-bit capable, so the 64-bit version can't run and won't...
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Thanks, so to be sure, you are saying this would be the best Linux OS [Slacko Puppy 7.0 ] I should install on this machine as it is...
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It doesn't have XD/NX-bit required for 32-bit Win8 or later. 256MB really wasn't enough to run XP SP3 back in the day, because even...
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No, you can't put Win 10 on it. That was marginal with XP when it was new. I give it 2 options... 1. A Linux variant for someone to...
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Linux is your best bet for a system like this, 256mb is not very much memory, it wasn't even a ton of memory when this laptop was new...
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Yes it's 256mb. I figure I can put any OS on it which can work and somebody should be able to use it.
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Hey guys, I got this old dell which has XP on it and is a Pentium 1.6Ghz, 256 Ram and 30gb HDD. Can this run on Windows10 and if not and...
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