On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 21:48:18 -0400 "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:18:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:23:20PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > so now we can twiddle our thumbs, go on random OT rants and rest > > assured that lenny will be out any time. When's the next utnubu due > > out? That always brings a few interesting ones. Maybe we should run > > some more google trends charts? > > > > We could reminise about my 486 that doesn't run Debian anymore. I > wonder if Lenny will run on my P-II or if that's another box for > OpenBSD. > > I remember my 386. It was an IBM PS/2 model 70-A21. It came with the > then-unherd of 120MB hard drive, MCA bus, and I put 4 MB ram into it, > running OS/2, IBM Fortran compiler (the reason I bought a computer in > the first place), WordPerfect 4.?, and AutoCad 11. > > It died after two years. That second summer was very hot and we didn't > have air-conditioning. The system-board cracked across like a > cookie-sheet in the oven. I don't know if the problem was the board or > the plastic case. Room temp was over 40 C with about 90% humidity. > This happend just as I was entering the summer before final year in > nursing and I was writing many essays and doing stats research (and the > only one in the class doing it in Fortran instead of the stats package > that required MS something). > > I replaced the 386 with my IBM 486 ValuePoint 6492X5C, 16 MB ram (now > 32MB). This box still runs like a charm but gagged on Etch and runs > OpenBSD just fine. > > My P-II was given to me full of cat hair. The people who gave it to me > needed a box with USB. I read the manual for the board and popped out > the cover on the back of the case and lo and behold there are two > functioning USB ports on the MB. :) The PSU is flaky, the CPU fan > bearing is noisy (hostname= rocky, as in a gravel truck). It does take > large drives so is a good second box but it only has 64 MB ram and isn't > reliable (too much heat damage?) to bother adding more. Will it run > Lenny well? Since we're off topic and talking about low end machine. I don't know if any of you guys have heard of this new linux distro on the block called slitaz. http://www.slitaz.org/en/ Very small distro...fits in a 24.8 mb live cd. Can run entirely on RAM as low as 64MB. Linux kernel 2.6.24.2 and all the good stuff. I wish i could try it out but I only have old PPC machines lying around...never owned an x86... AMit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
