[NTLUG:Discuss] P-200's and Peanut Linux

[rmoncello@attbi.com]

I have one word to say what I'd try to do with them. . .

Beowolf. 

I've wanted to try it, but never had the resources to gather enough machines to 
make it fun.
> DOnt forget that these machines would also make great firewall/router boxes.
> You can run the smaller distros that only deal with networking/firewalling.
> This is somewhat redundant nowadays with the price of cable/dsl routers
> getting so low, but would be great learning tools.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org]On
> Behalf Of kbrannen at gte.net
> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 9:39 PM
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> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] P-200's and Peanut Linux
> 
> 
> G S wrote:
> ...
> >
> > These machines are P-200's, 32m RAM, 2.5 gb HD.      Am I pissing in the
> > wind wanting to run Linux with X windows on a machine this small?     Is
> > Peanut Linux any good,   Has anyone tried it.    What are the problems
> > with it.    Is there a better small distro?      I am trying Knoppix as
> > I type.
> ...
> 
> It can be done.  I used to have a Toshiba 1910cs that was a 486-33dx with
> 12M
> of RAM and a 1G HD (HD was not original but upgraded).  It actually ran
> reasonablly well with the 16 color VGA X server.  Most people probably
> wouldn't care for that, but my requirements were quite modest.  That was
> with
> the Slackware 3.x distros, IIRC.
> 
> I guess the older distros didn't have as much in them so they ran on smaller
> machines better.  Don't know for sure though...from time to time I do ask
> myself why the older distros ran on smaller/older machines and the newer
> ones
> have trouble.  I have yet to come up with an answer that completely
> satisfies
> me, but in reality I probably don't care enough to investigate it. :-)
> OTOH,
> if someone has the answer, it'd be nice if you shared it. :-)
> 
> HTH,
> Kevin
> 
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