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From: Michael Black on 6 Mar 2010 16:15 On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, J G Miller wrote: > On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:31:36 +0000, General Schvantzkoph wrote: > >> Trying to use a 32M machine for anything more sophisticated then >> running your lawn sprinklers is just silly. > > The Linksys NSLU2 has only 32 Mbyte of memory and can be used for > sophisticated purposes such as DNS, FTP server, Exim4 mail server, > openSLP server, SAMBA server, etc all running concurrently > > <http://www.nslu2-linux.ORG/> > But those are low level things, and it makes sense to use a physically small computer for such things, rather than wasting space and energy running an old desktop (though of course, that's been done, people putting together a smorgasbord of old computers in order to get a lot of function done with a better but single computer). All of those functions were done with small amounts of memory. Let's not forget that about 1997, the minimum RAM requirement for a lot of distributions was still merely 4megs. Of course you could do various servers in that amount of memory, the servers themselves weren't hogs. But a desktop, you want to do things that weren't common back then, so you are more likely to need more memory. At this point, the oldest of computers that people want to use have been superceded by more recent discards. I'm using a 1GHz computer, that was a hand me down at the end of 2003. I finally got it up to the maximum 512megs of RAM 2 years ago when I came across a computer waiting for the garbage truck, and I grabbed the RAM. The fact that more than once I've stumbled on a computer the same vintage as this 1GHz computer indicates people do not have to be stuck in the past. I can get something 2 or 3 times this speed for less than the $150 I spent on a used 200MHz Pentium back in mid-2001. People are constantly talking about using old computers "for the challenge", but others have already done that challenge. Michael
From: Darren Salt on 6 Mar 2010 17:03 I demand that General Schvantzkoph may or may not have written... [snip] > However 512M is not 32M, it's 16 times greater. Actually, no; that would be 544MB. :-รพ [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds ,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + http://www.xine-project.org/ Be self-reliant and your success is assured.
From: TJ on 10 Mar 2010 09:43 On 03/06/2010 10:31 AM, General Schvantzkoph wrote: > On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:15:05 -0500, TJ wrote: > >> You've never taken on a challenge just to see if you could do it, have >> you? > > I've gone trekking in the Himalayas and the Andes if that's what you > mean, but I've never wasted my time on a pointless challenge. Trying to > use a 32M machine for anything more sophisticated then running your lawn > sprinklers is just silly. Even if the OP can get it to work at all the > performance would be absolutely awful. > > The worth of a challenge a very personal thing. A worthwhile challenge could be trekking through mountains, restoring an antique, starting a new business, inventing a better mousetrap, raising a family, caring for a dying loved one, getting a better education, or even trying to make an old computer work with a modern OS. The list goes on and on, and the worth of an individual challenge depends on the person accepting that challenge. It is not for you or me to decide that another person's choice is "pointless." TJ -- 90 per cent of everything is crud. - Theodore Sturgeon
From: Lynn on 1 Apr 2010 19:29
I have a TI TravelMate 6000 with pentium 133 processor, 1.4 gig hdd, 32 meg ram, no USB .. I have DSL 4.4.1 installed and running with no problems and it does everything I have asked it to do .. it's just something to play with to see what it can do .. --- frmsrcurl: http://compgroups.net/comp.os.linux.misc/old-laptop-rebirth-with-32-meg-ram-with-wireless |