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Re: [LUG] Damned Small Linux

 

On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 16:29 -0400, David Bell wrote:
> The other day I "rescued" an Intel Celerion P500+ box from the
>  recycling centre as it looked in good condition, complete with a
>  removable HDD tray.  I checked it out and found that someone had
>  installed SuSE v10 on it,

Sounds like my main system - 400mhz - until about a week ago when I
finally got around to putting suse 10.1 and ubuntu and xp onto this 'ere
2ghz box got from second hand parts and freecycled kit
(www.freecycle.org??) if people haven't heard of the scheme). 

Currently trying to get wireless networking going on a pair of Dell 8200
laptops using Linux Emporium belkin pcmcia cards that come with drivers.
But that is down to my incompetence and ignorance I suspect.


>  found it incredibly slow and promptly junked  it.
> 
I've found suse 9.3 perfectly useable for the last couple of years on
this 500mhz box, tho' using xfce4 for the desktop. KDE became
progressively more painful over the years on that level of processor!
Don't really use Gnome, no particular reason apart from familiarity
really. I installed 10.0 on a spare partition (its got a couple of real
big disks hanging off a sata card in it in addition to a large ide
drive) and didn't find any noticeable difference in performance on 256mb
ram, tho' that is now upgraded to 512m as I took a stick out of a dead
computer to beef it up. 

> I intended to use it to upgrade my IPCop box

Why bother? 90mhz uses a lot less electricity!

>  (leaving his name and address in an Open Office
>  document) did me a favour:-)

Send him a thank you note! 
> 

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