What Linux distro to use for old Intel machine, that fits on CDs?

In article e.org, Michael Black wrote:


On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Benjamin Gawert wrote:
Investing anything in a 200MHz computer is more or less just a waste as a
much faster P3 (500+Mhz) can be had for almost nothing today.

Well yes.

I bought a used 200MHz Pentium in mid-2001 to run Linux. The next
year, I found a nearly identical system lying on the sidewalk waiting
for the garbage truck. Almost five years ago I was given this hand me
down 1GHz computer, so basically I'm not paying attention to what's
being thrown out these days. But surely it's better than 200MHz.
A few weeks ago, I did finally find a computer with a 256meg DIMM
in it, so I'm finally up to 512megs, the maximum of this computer. In
retrospect, given that memory I should have taken a closer look to
see if it was better than this one. At this point it likely is time
to see better computers waiting for the garbage. Certainly, I'm seeing
1GHz or slightly better in local ads around the $40 mark.

Michael

I see 1.6-2.4Ghz P4 machines at store like Salvation Army or Deseret Industries
(LDS church version of Salvation Army type thrift store, as seen in Napolean
Dynamite) all the time for around $5-$10

On 2008-06-29, raylopez99 wrote:
On Jun 28, 5:38*am, Robert Heller wrote:

[deletia]

government owned, that was a good point, but no more; however, Linux
users are stuck in the past, still fighting the battle that was
settled by litigation 10+ years ago, that MSFT charges vendors for

A lot of trolls are stuck in the past too. They're probably the
ones that generate most of the counter-traffic.

With Linux, it's not so much the distro but what you try and run.
I can take Ubuntu and easily adapt it to a less powerful system just
by running the sorts of things that I ran back when a PentiumPro was
new. A lot depends on what all your requirements are.

Even my current fancy desktop is mostly idle...

BTW, WindowMaker was what I ran when my system was a 32M 486.

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JEDIDIAH writes:

On 2008-06-29, raylopez99 wrote:
On Jun 28, 5:38Â*am, Robert Heller wrote:

[deletia]

government owned, that was a good point, but no more; however, Linux
users are stuck in the past, still fighting the battle that was
settled by litigation 10+ years ago, that MSFT charges vendors for

A lot of trolls are stuck in the past too. They're probably the
ones that generate most of the counter-traffic.

With Linux, it's not so much the distro but what you try and run.

That's a cracker even for your silly word mangling games.

I can take Ubuntu and easily adapt it to a less powerful system just
by running the sorts of things that I ran back when a PentiumPro was

Yup. Hence my question about why so many distros.

new. A lot depends on what all your requirements are.

Even my current fancy desktop is mostly idle...

Yup. Mine too. I tend to play movies on the second head while
programming or playing COLA (by far the best RPG available for
Linux).. And the machine is still only ticking over. So I use the CPU
Frequency Scaling monitor and associated kernel support in OnDemand mode
to reduce power consumption.


BTW, WindowMaker was what I ran when my system was a 32M 486.

--
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independence, our sovereignty, our sweat and all that we fought
for. -- Robert Mugabe, OSS supporter and advocate for freedom. COLA advocate."

Hadron wrote:
JEDIDIAH writes:

On 2008-06-29, raylopez99 wrote:
On Jun 28, 5:38 am, Robert Heller wrote:
[deletia]

government owned, that was a good point, but no more; however, Linux
users are stuck in the past, still fighting the battle that was
settled by litigation 10+ years ago, that MSFT charges vendors for
A lot of trolls are stuck in the past too. They're probably the
ones that generate most of the counter-traffic.

With Linux, it's not so much the distro but what you try and run.

That's a cracker even for your silly word mangling games.

I can take Ubuntu and easily adapt it to a less powerful system just
by running the sorts of things that I ran back when a PentiumPro was

Yup. Hence my question about why so many distros.

new. A lot depends on what all your requirements are.

Even my current fancy desktop is mostly idle...

Yup. Mine too. I tend to play movies on the second head while
programming or playing COLA (by far the best RPG available for
Linux).. And the machine is still only ticking over. So I use the CPU
Frequency Scaling monitor and associated kernel support in OnDemand mode
to reduce power consumption.

BTW, WindowMaker was what I ran when my system was a 32M 486.

What is COLA? Can't quite place the acronym..
Eric

On 2008-06-30, Hadron wrote:
JEDIDIAH writes:

On 2008-06-29, raylopez99 wrote:
On Jun 28, 5:38Â*am, Robert Heller wrote:

[deletia]

government owned, that was a good point, but no more; however, Linux
users are stuck in the past, still fighting the battle that was
settled by litigation 10+ years ago, that MSFT charges vendors for

A lot of trolls are stuck in the past too. They're probably the
ones that generate most of the counter-traffic.

With Linux, it's not so much the distro but what you try and run.

That's a cracker even for your silly word mangling games.

Why do you insist on being such an ass.


I can take Ubuntu and easily adapt it to a less powerful system just
by running the sorts of things that I ran back when a PentiumPro was

Yup. Hence my question about why so many distros.

Obviously you've never really worked in the computing industry.


new. A lot depends on what all your requirements are.

Even my current fancy desktop is mostly idle...

Yup. Mine too. I tend to play movies on the second head while
programming or playing COLA (by far the best RPG available for
Linux).. And the machine is still only ticking over. So I use the CPU

....must not be much of movie then.

Frequency Scaling monitor and associated kernel support in OnDemand mode
to reduce power consumption.


BTW, WindowMaker was what I ran when my system was a 32M 486.

...in those days instead of converting movies while watching
them it was listening to music while converting it. There was also the
occasional programming, web surfing, document editing and running amok
on Usenet.


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is genuinely new: culture, like science and |||
technology grows by accretion, each new creator / | \
building on the works of those that came before.

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US Court of Appeals
9th Circuit


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"Hadron" quacked:

Hence my question about why so many distros.

Don't you mean your "continuous, cretinous, anti-choice trolling",
Quack?

JEDIDIAH writes:

On 2008-06-30, Hadron wrote:
JEDIDIAH writes:

On 2008-06-29, raylopez99 wrote:
On Jun 28, 5:38ÂÂ*am, Robert Heller wrote:

[deletia]

government owned, that was a good point, but no more; however, Linux
users are stuck in the past, still fighting the battle that was
settled by litigation 10+ years ago, that MSFT charges vendors for

A lot of trolls are stuck in the past too. They're probably the
ones that generate most of the counter-traffic.

With Linux, it's not so much the distro but what you try and run.

That's a cracker even for your silly word mangling games.

Why do you insist on being such an ass.


I can take Ubuntu and easily adapt it to a less powerful system just
by running the sorts of things that I ran back when a PentiumPro was

Yup. Hence my question about why so many distros.

Obviously you've never really worked in the computing industry.


This must be a new meaning of "obviously" only you are familiar with.


new. A lot depends on what all your requirements are.

Even my current fancy desktop is mostly idle...

Yup. Mine too. I tend to play movies on the second head while
programming or playing COLA (by far the best RPG available for
Linux).. And the machine is still only ticking over. So I use the CPU

...must not be much of movie then.

Your clueless regarding video and video HW is simply gobsmacking in this
day and age.


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"Unfortunately, once again, the user-unfriendly dirtware sucks so bad it's
hard to prove how bad it sucks."
-- "DFS" in comp.os.linux.advocacy

On 2008-06-30, Hadron wrote:
JEDIDIAH writes:

On 2008-06-30, Hadron wrote:
JEDIDIAH writes:

On 2008-06-29, raylopez99 wrote:
On Jun 28, 5:38ÂÂ*am, Robert Heller wrote:

[deletia]

government owned, that was a good point, but no more; however, Linux
users are stuck in the past, still fighting the battle that was
settled by litigation 10+ years ago, that MSFT charges vendors for

A lot of trolls are stuck in the past too. They're probably the
ones that generate most of the counter-traffic.

With Linux, it's not so much the distro but what you try and run.

That's a cracker even for your silly word mangling games.

Why do you insist on being such an ass.


I can take Ubuntu and easily adapt it to a less powerful system just
by running the sorts of things that I ran back when a PentiumPro was

Yup. Hence my question about why so many distros.

Obviously you've never really worked in the computing industry.


This must be a new meaning of "obviously" only you are familiar with.

Don't kid yourself.



new. A lot depends on what all your requirements are.

Even my current fancy desktop is mostly idle...

Yup. Mine too. I tend to play movies on the second head while
programming or playing COLA (by far the best RPG available for
Linux).. And the machine is still only ticking over. So I use the CPU

...must not be much of movie then.

Your clueless regarding video and video HW is simply gobsmacking in this
day and age.

Not really. Although I am satisfied to just let your comments speak for
themselves....

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vi is easy to REPLACE.

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JEDIDIAH writes:

On 2008-06-30, Hadron wrote:
JEDIDIAH writes:

On 2008-06-30, Hadron wrote:
JEDIDIAH writes:

On 2008-06-29, raylopez99 wrote:
On Jun 28, 5:38ÂÂÂ*am, Robert Heller wrote:

[deletia]

government owned, that was a good point, but no more; however, Linux
users are stuck in the past, still fighting the battle that was
settled by litigation 10+ years ago, that MSFT charges vendors for

A lot of trolls are stuck in the past too. They're probably the
ones that generate most of the counter-traffic.

With Linux, it's not so much the distro but what you try and run.

That's a cracker even for your silly word mangling games.

Why do you insist on being such an ass.


I can take Ubuntu and easily adapt it to a less powerful system just
by running the sorts of things that I ran back when a PentiumPro was

Yup. Hence my question about why so many distros.

Obviously you've never really worked in the computing industry.


This must be a new meaning of "obviously" only you are familiar with.

Don't kid yourself.



new. A lot depends on what all your requirements are.

Even my current fancy desktop is mostly idle...

Yup. Mine too. I tend to play movies on the second head while
programming or playing COLA (by far the best RPG available for
Linux).. And the machine is still only ticking over. So I use the CPU

...must not be much of movie then.

Your clueless regarding video and video HW is simply gobsmacking in this
day and age.

Not really. Although I am satisfied to just let your comments speak for
themselves....

As they have done. I use a dual head, HW accelerated video card on a top
notch machine driving both a big plasma screen and a lcd monitor. I do
play modern FPS and similar. You do none of these things. You have no
experience of what I speak and your ridiculous word games reveal you to
be a wannabe.

--
"Maybe you can buy a Saturday Night Special and blow your POS brains out."
-- Rick in comp.os.linux.advocacy

On 2008-07-01, Hadron wrote:
JEDIDIAH writes:

On 2008-06-30, Hadron wrote:
JEDIDIAH writes:

On 2008-06-30, Hadron wrote:
JEDIDIAH writes:

On 2008-06-29, raylopez99 wrote:
On Jun 28, 5:38ÂÂÂ*am, Robert Heller wrote:

[deletia]
Yup. Mine too. I tend to play movies on the second head while
programming or playing COLA (by far the best RPG available for
Linux).. And the machine is still only ticking over. So I use the CPU

...must not be much of movie then.

Your clueless regarding video and video HW is simply gobsmacking in this
day and age.

Not really. Although I am satisfied to just let your comments speak for
themselves....

As they have done. I use a dual head, HW accelerated video card on a top
notch machine driving both a big plasma screen and a lcd monitor. I do

....try your dick waving with someone who cares and/or doesn't know better.

play modern FPS and similar. You do none of these things. You have no
experience of what I speak and your ridiculous word games reveal you to
be a wannabe.



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