Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 66.240.11.2]
on August 03, 2007 06:54 PM
I run fedora core3(kept patched) on a PII 350Mhz. It's a minimal install with the only running services being sshd, IPTABLES, pppoe, and a caching dns server, along with the basic services necessary for running a system. It's my gateway/firewall/dsl box for my home network. It's been running for a long time. Before that I used FreeSCO, until my floppy died 8*(
I'm sure AntiX is a great distro, but it's not the only one capable of running on old hardware in a small footprint. That old hardware is useful with or without AntiX. Gentoo, slackware, and most of the other distros have ways of dealing with old much less powerful hardware and there are many distros that fit on a floppy. The article makes it sound like "Gee we can finally use that old hardware because of AntiX". This is not the reality of the situation.
You just have to be realistic and not expect them to run Quake, or KDE with all the bells and whistles. That old gateway (Ironically it's a Gateway PC ROFL) is 12 years old. I _never_ expected it to last this long but it's a tank ; )
My recently retired PIII desktop will become a squid box 8)
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New AntiX distro makes older hardware usable
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 66.240.11.2] on August 03, 2007 06:54 PMI'm sure AntiX is a great distro, but it's not the only one capable of running on old hardware in a small footprint. That old hardware is useful with or without AntiX. Gentoo, slackware, and most of the other distros have ways of dealing with old much less powerful hardware and there are many distros that fit on a floppy. The article makes it sound like "Gee we can finally use that old hardware because of AntiX". This is not the reality of the situation.
You just have to be realistic and not expect them to run Quake, or KDE with all the bells and whistles. That old gateway (Ironically it's a Gateway PC ROFL) is 12 years old. I _never_ expected it to last this long but it's a tank ; )
My recently retired PIII desktop will become a squid box 8)
Yea, I'm a packrat...
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