[GRLUG] Hey look! A linux topic!

[Bob Kline]

In the spirit of try it and see, I loaded
Knoppix V3.6 on a 10 year old ASUS
P55T2P4 motherboard with a 166MHz
Pentium processor, and 192MB of RAM.

Works fine.  It's fast, in the context of a
166 MHz CPU.  And even while the BIOS
on the motherboard only supports an 8.4 GB
drive, I can hang an arbitrarily large
external drive with a USB interface on it
and use it.

Knoppix V3.6 uses a 2.4 kernel.  So far
I've gotten no distribution using a 2.6
kernel to produce a working mouse. That
includes PS-2 and serial mice.  I haven't
tried a USB mouse yet.  Otherwise,
newer distributions do load, and I can
use everything except the mouse by using
line commands and screen position keys.

I don't think the motherboard and memory
meet the minimum requirements for running
Knoppix.........

   -- Bob


On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 3:25 PM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org>wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 03:10:35PM -0500, Lee Forest wrote:
>
>
> > requirements were alittle higher then Ubuntu's, but in reality I'm not
> > noticing a big difference on my 700mhz processor, with 512 ram. Tho I
>
> That's a nice bit of Linux evangelism: the latest Linux on old hardware.
> Excellent.
>
> john-thomas
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