[Coco] Keeping current... ????

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 26 February 2007, Dan Olson wrote:
>> 4400.  And they did a fine job with Mozilla 1.0 and OpenOffice.org
>> 1.0. Now I've got an Athlon 3000XP+ that I'm dedicating to flight sim
>> games, an Athlon 1800XP+ that I'm using for other Windows 2K stuff,
>> and I've moved the K6/2-450 to the main Linux workstation, to replace
>> the older 200MHz motherboard that had been running RH8 fairly capably.
>>  I want that computer to do word processing, web browsing, email,
>> occasional light GIMP work, and some fiddling in Perl and C.  It
>> should easily be up to that task, at least to my standards.  There's
>> no reason why a computer like that, which hasn't yet begun to rust or
>> break down, should be incapable of doing those things -- even with a
>> GUI.  I'd like to move
>
>That's what burns me the most!  I have used 486 and Pentium machines in

I don't think a 486 has ever run linux unless it was some variety of 
ucLinux, its missing a memory manager that linux depends on.

>the past with a web browser and mail reader, running Linux, and I don't
>see why a newer machine, say a PII with 128M of ram, shouldn't be
> overkill for looking at web pages or reading e-mail.  I probably should
> try DSL (Damn Small Linux) in the near future, it's probably my best
> bet.  I've even got a 386 that I used as an Xterminal for the longest
> time, it was a little slow loading up but ran great once it got going. 
> I feal like my choices anymore are all or nothing; either I need a huge
> hard drive, lots or RAM, and the latest Linux, or I need something
> that's old and lacks programs (such as Firefox) just to get it running
> on my hardware.

Having tried linux on an old 25mhz 386, I can testify that it was just as 
painfully slow as it was on my 25mhz 68040 equipt amiga 2000.  And I do 
mean painfull.  Amigados3.9 ran 50x faster very easily.  OTOH I'm not 
sure if it ever found the 68040 and its 64megs of ram, its been so long 
since I tried I don't recall now, so maybe it was trying to run on the 
7mhz 68000 & 4 megs of ram, 2 chip, on the mobo and 2 on the disk 
controller.

> 	Dan
>
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