Comments on: Meet the Little Laptop That Could

By: An apology, and a eulogy « Motho ke motho ka botho

An apology, and a eulogy « Motho ke motho ka botho — Wed, 18 May 2011 23:54:39 +0000

[...] In any case, it was a good end to an only mediocre machine. I scavenged the few parts that were worth keeping (network card, memory chip), dd‘d an image of the drive, and sent the rest out with the recycling. RIP, little laptop that could. [...]

By: A finished product: The weather clock project « Motho ke motho ka botho

A finished product: The weather clock project « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:38:01 +0000

[...] so: for as long as it lasts, I think this machine has finally come to a good end. It makes me feel warm and fuzzy to think that a machine I beat up [...]

By: Stormy future: The weather clock project « Motho ke motho ka botho

Stormy future: The weather clock project « Motho ke motho ka botho — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:11:39 +0000

[...] I’ve made some progress in the disassembling of the Sotec machine, in its transition from abused and disused laptop to smooth and suave weather map and wall [...]

By: It never rains, but it pours « Motho ke motho ka botho

It never rains, but it pours « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:32:15 +0000

[...] Two years of surreptitiously using it as a Linux test bed, another year of shelf life, and out of the blue it’s suddenly mine to work with. I need a smiley that smacks itself on the head in disbelief. [...]

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:07:44 +0000

Thanks, I’ll take a look.

By: Ikem

Ikem — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:13:37 +0000

I know you build some systems from scratch. And you have a faible for small distros. Maybe you check out “Voyage Linux”?

By: Old hardware a handicap? Au contraire! « Motho ke motho ka botho

Old hardware a handicap? Au contraire! « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:17:44 +0000

[...] I learned a lot more about Linux from a wildly unpredictable 100Mhz machine, and even more from a rancid little K6-2, than I ever did from a dual core Thinkpad. I enjoy having it, but I don’t count it among my [...]

By: Crux and XFCE at 750Mhz « Motho ke motho ka botho

Crux and XFCE at 750Mhz « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:02:42 +0000

[...] Crux and XFCE at 750Mhz Published 2008/05/05 Crux Linux , Ubuntu Leave a Comment I had set up the battered Thinkpad with a Crux installation, and was one-fourth of the way through an Openbox system when I remembered that I had, at one time in the past, wanted to see a full Gnome installation on Crux. I was wondering if it would feel anything like Debian did on the ugly little laptop. [...]

By: Fluxbuntu 7.10 RC on 450Mhz K6-2, 256Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho

Fluxbuntu 7.10 RC on 450Mhz K6-2, 256Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:57:11 +0000

[...] also possible that my video card — an ancient 2Mb Silicon Motion Lynx — has a hard time keeping that boot splash [...]

By: Ubuntu 7.10 and gOS on 450Mhz K6-2, 256Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho

Ubuntu 7.10 and gOS on 450Mhz K6-2, 256Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:30:24 +0000

[...] was installed over a command-line installation of Ubuntu 7.10 on this laptop (you guessed that?), using the method described here. I tacked a note on that thread, mentioning [...]