On Jan 28, 2008 4:52 PM, Wolfgang Woehl
Montag, 28. Januar 2008 Don Raboud:
I have an AMD K6 (1.4 GHz, 512 MB memory) that is definitely older than 4 years. It has had SuSE (or whatever they were called at the time) 9.1, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2 and currently has openSUSE 10.3 on it.
This is a desktop machine (no real server functions) but as a desktop my experience has been that each release *seems* faster than the previous one. (Most likely this is due to improvements in KDE specifically).
So Mike, James, Don, hats off. Using old hardware and not replacing it with the latest iron on a regular basis really does have a significant impact on energy consumption.
Wrt being pleased doing that: You are _so_ up for a ride whenever you choose to switch to contemporary hardware. I bet you a copy of BBC's "Changing World" that you will not go back to these old boxes with joy in your heart :)
Using old hardware also lets you justify building special purpose machines. Witness the P2 laptop w/128 MB of Ram I installed to this weekend. (And yes I had a lot of trouble because I did not know in advance to reformat the drive and put a swap partition on it, but eventually I got it.) With that machine I plan to create a dedicated Weather Station Server. The speed needs are minimal, so this small little laptop should do just fine. I tried to use a much newer/bigger XP box. Didn't even stay running for 24 hours. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org