Rebuilding old hardware [was: Looking for new business oportunities]

austin austin at ilumini.org
Mon Mar 2 17:34:34 UTC 2009


I have a handful(10) of pIII boxes and they are all running debian 5.0
stable w/ xfce4  they are all fast and responsive enough for basic
use.

-a

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Kenneth Hawkins <kjurkic at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Howdy Bob
>
> For low-end hardware, and if you are not connecting to internet (as security
> is bypassed - no login req'd) Puppy linux cannot be beat for small footprint
> & speed. It's package management is a bit different, but it enjoys a large
> community, with many deriviatives. Some are very specifically a desktop copy
> of XP. If you can load the machine with over 256MB of RAM, you can set the
> whole OS to load in RAM at start, and enjoy blazing fast app loading &
> switching.
>
> The recent versions have Samba tools that are fairly easy to use for LAN
> services.
>
> If a bit of security, or login scripting functions are needed, then Vector
> linux also works well on older hardware; based on slackware, which is
> generally acknowledged to be the fastest base for general PC operations.
>
> Could also consider AntiX, a derivative of MEPIS that uses IceWM, that also
> works well on the PIII generation.
>
> HTH
> Ken, the distro hopping mad-man
>
> ________________________________
> From: Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com>
> To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 2:18:32 PM
> Subject: Rebuilding old hardware [was: Looking for new business
> oportunities]
>
> I'm rebuilding a couple of low-end PCs (PIII, less than 256Mb RAM),
> and looking for a distro slightly more advanced than Debian 2.1.
>
> These boxes are network-enabled, but will  not be connected to the
> Internet. It sounds like GOS is dependent on  Cloud Computing; is GOS
> useful for non-Internet connected computers?  If not, what OS is
> recommended for low-powered obsolete hardware?
>
> --Bob.
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> On 23 Feb 2009 at 12:02 Kenneth Hawkins <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> wrote about "Re: Looking for new business oportunities[...]"
>
>>FWIW, I recently threw GOS onto an older PIII-600 Toshiba
>>Portege I have, that just never dies. I had trouble with XP, even after I
>>roto-root the septic sludge they force on us. I did not have high
>>expectations, as the max RAM on this thing is only 384MB, and it has no
>>special graphics chip. I confess that I was TOTALLY blown away! Every
>>component worked by default, including every PCMCIA wireless card I have
>>thrown at it so far. Best of all...it is WAY FASTER than XP was on the
>>same hardware in its DEFAULT config. Youtube worked without having to
>>bitch-slap flash onto the machine, I can watch ripped videos if they are
>>not too compressed, stream audio/MP3/ogg right out of the box. Now if they
>>could just do somehting about the
>> crappy default desktop theme........If you are rebuilding PC's for
>> people, try GOS (its ubuntu based, so sources work)
>>
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