[NTLUG:Discuss] linux & 100 Mhz Pentium

[Tom Tumelty]

Yes that is along the lines of what i thought would be do-able with a 100 Mhz box and Linux.
I have got several OSs lately and want to experiment. I got Slackware 9.0, Redhat 9.0, FreeBSD 5.1, OpenBSD 3.3, Mandrake 9.0 . I was considering buying a $10 dollar 100 Mhz pentium at first saturday....but i might be better off utilizing a couple of extra hard drives i have and partitioning for a multi-OS booting system or 2.

i am just consideirng different possibilities since i have not run redhat in a while and never run mandrake or the BSDs ...except an isp i worked at yrs ago ran freeBSD.
 
Thanks for the input....sounds like we are on the same page.
 

David A Venable <davidv at adoptageek.net> wrote:
Tom Tumelty wrote:

>Hi,
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>Does anyone know if a recent linux release such as redhat 9, or 8, or slackware 9, or 8.x will run on a 100 Mhz pentium ? if so will it be fast enough to do anything?,,,,,i am thinking it might need to be a very scaled down, minimal system......
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>Thanks,
>Tom
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It depends on what you want to do with it. It's probably too slow for an 
X workstation but it might be useable with a trimmed down WM like IceWM. 
It would make a decent Router/Firewall for a home network. It would 
probably make a good samba server as long as there weren't too many 
clients connected to it. Take a look at Debian, unlike other distros, 
you pretty much pick and choose exactly what you want without a lot of 
extra stuff.

Dave


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