Comments on: 300Mhz Pentium II … and still in action http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/10/07/300mhz-pentium-ii-and-still-in-action/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: darrin http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/10/07/300mhz-pentium-ii-and-still-in-action/#comment-42079 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:54:45 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/10/07/300mhz-pentium-ii-and-still-in-action/#comment-42079 That’s great!

Amongst my arsenal of ThinkPads (I’ve also got an X60, which I see that you have recently acquired…), one of my favorite machines to use is my ThinkPad 770Z, which has a 350 MHz PII, 256 MB RAM and a 13 GB HDD. It’s seen various OS’s over the years (starting with FC-3); it currently runs Damn Small Linux (3.4.10 – light-weight and for ease of use). I love the snappiness of the keys on the keyboard, and it’s just a fun machine to use.

I’m trying out Arch on an old Dell PIII right now, and once I have more time to get used to the OS, I may set up the PII on Arch too. From your blog posts, I get the idea that Arch runs well on old hardware. For old hardware, do you like to revert back to the 2.4.x kernel, or do you stay with the 2.6.x kernel? I think that read somewhere that the 2.4.x kernel has more support for old hardware than the 2.6.x. I’m curious to know your take on this.

Thanks!

]]> By: A bare minimum « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/10/07/300mhz-pentium-ii-and-still-in-action/#comment-42071 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:07:26 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2006/10/07/300mhz-pentium-ii-and-still-in-action/#comment-42071 [...] irony of this is, about two years ago I had a machine of those exact specifications but handled most of those tasks graphically — to include video playback — instead of [...]

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