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Linux on Older Hardware

Posted by michael on from the double-speed-cdrom dept.

sparrow_hawk writes: "One of Linux's strengths has always been the wide variety of older/obsolete hardware it supports. However, most modern distributions seem to assume that the user has a brand-new machine with processor and RAM to spare. Linux Journal reports on the RULE project (Run Up2Date Linux Everywhere). They are trying to come up with a low-resource-requirement, easy-to-use Linux installation for use on older hardware, intended as an option when you install Red Hat Linux. The FAQ has more information."

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  1. Re:Oh yah, this comes out "now"... by KlomDark · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That's MY girlfriend! I actually met her on match.com! :) Sweet, eh? I still dunno why she likes me, but I'm not complaining! :)

  2. Re:Oh yah, this comes out "now"... by KlomDark · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    But, you've gotta admit that this is a much more interesting picture of her... :)

  3. Re:Oh yah, this comes out "now"... by KlomDark · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Damn! I'm nearly getting slashdotted! :) I guess my girlfriend is really attracting a lot of interest! :)

    The poor 386 is swapping to death, but seems to be still keeping up. :) Nearly 2000 hits since I posted that! Even hits from .au!! Pretty cool. How's the performance from outside my local network? Slower than molasses, or OK? OK for a normal server or just OK for a 386? I know the MUD is way fast, some very efficient code, but not sure of the rest.

  4. Re:Oh yah, this comes out "now"... by KlomDark · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    running tail -f /usr/local/apache/logs/access.log and just amazed at how fast the hits are coming in!

    Complete geek excitement on my part! Never been "slashdotted" before. :)

  5. Re:Oh yah, this comes out "now"... by KlomDark · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Here's the top part from TOP on the poor thing:

    4:30am up 18 days, 8:06, 3 users, load average: 1.08, 1.11, 1.22
    61 processes: 60 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
    CPU states: 28.3% user, 26.4% system, 0.0% nice, 45.1% idle
    Mem: 14608K av, 14012K used, 596K free, 17016K shrd, 352K buff
    Swap: 66488K av, 15000K used, 51488K free 5336K cached

    Kewl :)

  6. Re:Oh yah, this comes out "now"... by KlomDark · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    And I did get asked this question: What's with the .asp files (/ROTFOH and /MessageBase)??

    Those, I am simply using Apache's proxy module to reverse proxy to an NT server on the network, so the NT box (a 233 Mhz Pentium I with 128 megs RAM) is doing most of the work on those.

    Sorry, didn't mean to deceive anyone. Everything else besides those two directories/apps is running 100% on the 386.

  7. Re:Question. by darkmoon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I do it for the children!