[Novalug] Older PCs get no respect!

[Andy Anderson]

gregory pryzby wrote:
> While the topic has wandered around...
>
> My *only* complaint is an
>    IBM 570E 
>       PIII 500
>       196M
> wasn't able to load a 5.04 Ubuntu. 
>   
Hi Greg, that ought to be plenty of horsepower to run Ubuntu.  You might
want to try either 5.10 or 6.06 (or even later); I had a *few* problems
running 5.04 on a couple of similar PCs (PII and PIII CPUs at 400 - 800
MHz) that would run 5.10 fine, and one of them is still running 6.06 LTS
server.  All of them had at least 256Mb, with most having 512 or 768.
> It hung somewhere and I haven't had the time to investigate although I
> think I will now.
>
> Because I don't need Gnome or KDE I can run a light WM and this is
> more than enough memory.
>   
Yep - I've run 5.10 and 6.06 on headless PCs with 128Mb with no problems.
> Where are the days of my dx33 w/ 500M disk, 20M memory, 2 xservers,
> ppp, http and java developement?
>   
Yeah, I remember running OS/2 2.0 on an IBM PS/2 with a 20 Mb disk and 4
Mb RAM and it ran the desktop fine.
> Oh yea, that was last century!
>   
It's difficult to fathom how we ever got any real work done on an Apple
][e or and original IBM PC... but we did!


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Andy Anderson 
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