Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 05, 2004 02:17 AM
> My fastest machine is an Athlon 2500XP
And that's old?! My fastest machine is a 500MHz Celeron, followed by a 166MHz Pentium I with 72Mb RAM, and a 75MHz Pentium I with 32Mb.
All of them run Linux - the first with Mandrake 9.1 with XFCE4, the other two with the excellent DeLi Linux and IceWM (the slowest machine has no X running at all).
All of these machines are in perfect working order, and they run fast with their respective configurations. It is this kind of machine, which is so often ending up down the dump polluting the water supply, which can be salvaged and got working as simple desktops, servers, routers, firewalls... Sure DeLi Linux is pretty basic, but you get a fully- networkable PC with word processing, spreadsheet, email, browser, etc. on a machine which otherwise could only run DOS or Windows 3.1. Linux is way ahead of those two.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 05, 2004 02:17 AMAnd that's old?! My fastest machine is a 500MHz Celeron, followed by a 166MHz Pentium I with 72Mb RAM, and a 75MHz Pentium I with 32Mb.
All of them run Linux - the first with Mandrake 9.1 with XFCE4, the other two with the excellent DeLi Linux and IceWM (the slowest machine has no X running at all).
All of these machines are in perfect working order, and they run fast with their respective configurations. It is this kind of machine, which is so often ending up down the dump polluting the water supply, which can be salvaged and got working as simple desktops, servers, routers, firewalls... Sure DeLi Linux is pretty basic, but you get a fully- networkable PC with word processing, spreadsheet, email, browser, etc. on a machine which otherwise could only run DOS or Windows 3.1. Linux is way ahead of those two.
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