Christina Johnsson wrote:
Samy Elashmawy wrote:
Come on guys , I keep hearing how LINUX can recycle all that older hardway , I wnt as far as loading it on a 486/66 w 8 meg of ram to test it as a samba server. Surprise , surprise , tha darn thing actualy worked , and I could run a dos app and data both accross the network and still have acceptable responce for screen/data respionce.
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I also have great experiences with "old hardware". I have three linux/win95-boxes at home. The two linux/win95-boxes is used for "work-and-play" and the third one is a 486/33 with a 100MB HDD!!!!!!!!!! I have linux installed on it and it serves as a printserver for the other two computers. Thanks to Samba I can print from my windowspartition too!!!! Ofcource X is not installed. My next project is to use the 486 as a gateway to the internet. I'll install my modem on it and by the help of God and IP-masquerading I hopefully will get it all to work as intended!
Christina
true enough. I used a 386sx20, 8MB (later 16MB), 100 + 60 MB Harddrive, samba 1.9.16 as a print server. worked well. needed the "lpc up all" command in crontab to make sure it didn't forget printing (as it happened on occasion). The rest was: installing, booting, checking and -forget it-. Much more reliable that a win3.11 printserver. (I was forced to convert it to the bad) but back to the original question and my "bad" remark: SO is a memory killer and with 16MB and X, you are running it from swap, not memory. I tried a DX2-66 with X and netscape 3.x a year ago, (fvwm95) this was *just* bearable. watch your xosview when trying to run SO5 next time. Juergen -- ========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann mail: brauki@cityweb.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu| /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ==========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e