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Linux on Older Hardware
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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Question: How many percent of people who write open source or free software are socialists and how many percent do it for other reasons and in that case, what reason?
that gives a new meaning to the term "core dump"
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! :)
But, you've gotta admit that this is a much more interesting picture of her... :)
True, on my last trip to thailand the hotel workers made only $4 a day, but my underage hookers got $7 a night.
Damn! I'm nearly getting slashdotted! :) I guess my girlfriend is really attracting a lot of interest! :)
:) 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.
The poor 386 is swapping to death, but seems to be still keeping up.
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.
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
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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.