[juneau-lug] Re: PCLinuxOS 2004
- From: Anthony Taylor <tony@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 00:02:54 -0800
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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