[juneau-lug] Re: PCLinuxOS 2004

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:20:19 -0800
"Tony Taylor (ISD)" <tony@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Stephen wrote:
> > 
> > So do they have 750mhz boxes down at Surplus now? Sheesh...what happened
> > to Linux being an OS for low-end boxes!
> > 
> 
> That *is* a low-end box.
> 
>               - Tony "High-end 8MB 386-40" Taylor
> 

Boy, not at the Juneau surplus.  OK, the P90's are hard to find (especially 
just after the big auction - kind of empty in there), but most boxes I've seen 
are 200-333's, a couple of 400's thrown in.  And ever since some hapless tech 
released a machine to surplus with 'confidential' information on it (or what 
appeared to be confidential to the person who bought the machine & then 
complained about it) the hard drives have all been pulled.  Wonderful.

Linux is still a low-end happy OS.  I run it on sub 200MHz machines all the 
time, although the slowest I'll go with KDE is 133MHz with >64MB RAM.  120MHz 
is iffy with X (even XFCE), and 100MHz and slower I don't usually bother with X 
at all.

The bootable-desktop-on-a-CD distributions are kind of power hungry though, as 
they need a LOT of RAM, and tend to load up the latest and greatest of 
everything.  I've got a FreeBSD bootable desktop CD that doesn't need so much 
CPU horsepower, but again needs a lot of RAM.

Let me know if anyone wants to try these out and I'll burn some for the next 
meeting.

Cheers,

James

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