[juneau-lug] Re: PCLinuxOS 2004

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

I was being facetious about that being a low-end computer.  My first 
Linux box was just as I described: an 8 MB 386-40, which was about as 
much computer as I could afford.  It ran X just fine, with FVWM.  I 
loved xgas.

Linux is still fine for low-end machines.  64MB is as low as I'd go for 
the newer kernels; but here at work, we have an old P-90 with 16MB RAM 
running a 1.2 kernel, serving up some old DOS application (1st Choice) 
via XDOS to folks on some NCD X Terminals.  The uptime on that (last I 
checked) was around 500 days.  It doesn't run X, of course.

That's about as low-end as I'd go these days, though.

                                - Tony

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