XP Fundamentals on ToughBooks?

Anyone here tried to install XP Fundamentals on a CF-29?

Anyone know the big differences between XP and Fundamentals?

I'm looking into it now...

 

Have you seen the Wikipedia Page?

Thanks, I had forgot about this OS!

 

Yeah, I was reading it when I made that post. What a book says, and what an actual person says, although similar, are different from each other.

A person of similar interests who has tried it, would know of the immediate pros and cons I would be looking for. Other than Outlook, I don't see any. I'm gonna try it here in a bit, and will report back after I do (don't hold your breath though).

 

I would be curious what services that it cuts on by default. I have run XP Pro quite well on an old CF-M34 with a 400MHz P3, mostly be eliminating unneeded services.

 

Interesting. I am acquiring a copy right now, it will be interesting to put it on a CF-07 that is used only for navigation. I am going to miss Outlook Express though
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I have it installed on a slightly upgraded 600X Thinkpad (850MHz P3, 576MB RAM). Haven't gotten around to do much with it yet, but if you have some OS-specific questions I suppose I can have a look.

 

Wow so I am not the only one who got their interest piqued by the post in the end of life thread . I am going to try it on my CF-28 I just need to backup some data. seems some gamers like it. From what I have read so far i.e. today. it seems you could accomplish the same thing with n-lite and/or turning off services like Azrial mentions. this just makes it out of the box so to speak. it is a pretweaked version.

just to add i think all models of the CF-29 can handle regular xp well enough that this is not necessary. The early Cf-28's would be a better candidate as they are just on the cusp of handling xp well with tweaking.

 

For those that might need dial-up networking, WinFLP does not support it. I guess because it's designed for corporate use, MS figured it would be connected to a LAN and no need for DUN.

If you want to use Windows Media Player, you must install it when you install the operating system.

Glen

 

I use it on my CF-27 Mk4 320mb ram. Works okay. Main problem is I can't install older MS Outlook (Office XP etc) versions cause Outlook Express is missing in FLP.

 

Frankly, I wonder what the installed size would grow to after you service packed it all the way up to 3. Normal XP Pro almost doubles in size.

 

On my CF-27 a clean install of FLP en SP2 takes 1.13GB. Haven't installed SP3 yet...

 

Wow, I asked a good one!

i just, *cough*, got my copy of FLP with sp3 slipped, and the iso is abot 700mb. but then again, xp is 700mb on a cd, and a fresh install (no sp's) is 1.1gb.

I'm watchin...

 

I am sure that it will install smaller with SP3 already integrated, then it will if it has to be upgraded all the way to SP3.

 

Anyone who is messing about with this OS might find this interesting. All credit goes to the Dwagon for pointing me to this very useful site.
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Seems like a pretty limited distribution--only SA customers, and not even included in MSDN subscriptions as a target development platform.