Comments on: Jackpot!

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 14:17:40 +0000

[...] I can also say that 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 [...]

By: Sound’s ironic « Motho ke motho ka botho

Sound’s ironic « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:04:40 +0000

[...] be lying if I said I wasn’t a little disappointed. It was a coup to get the thing (or its cousin, technically) running at all, and another coup to get the framebuffer working, and yet another [...]

By: devnull0

devnull0 — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:32:43 +0000

i was unable to install woody way back on a toshiba laptop with 32mb, even in text mode.

ended up taking out the hd, slotting it in a higher spec machine, and doing the install like that.

ran like a charm. very low power usage, and a build in ups… only for 15m though..

By: A Windows XP-ish Debian at 120Mhz « Motho ke motho ka botho

A Windows XP-ish Debian at 120Mhz « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:22:53 +0000

[...] of my earliest coups with the late 100Mhz Pentium laptop, the close relative to this one, was a stripped-down Crux-driven IceWM desktop. But even at that [...]

By: I’d like to thank the Academy. … « Motho ke motho ka botho

I’d like to thank the Academy. … « Motho ke motho ka botho — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:48:52 +0000

[...] 2010/01/20 Linux Leave a Comment It’s been well over a year since I brought home the first of two closely related Pentium laptops, with the goal of really wringing through some of the [...]

By: Ubuntu 9.10 at 120Mhz, 80Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho

Ubuntu 9.10 at 120Mhz, 80Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:30:32 +0000

[...] reason I spent a year (and perhaps longer) trying to build Crux installations for this machine and its predecessor is because few distros will run comfortably, even at the command line, on only 16Mb of memory. Crux [...]

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:23:39 +0000

Sigh. Another one. Thanks, I’ll see if I can get a screenshot again, or trim out the tags. Cheers.

By: evidex

evidex — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:46:30 +0000

All the pics are gone here mate

By: Jackpot, again! « Motho ke motho ka botho

Jackpot, again! « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:02:52 +0000

[...] thought I had hit the jackpot when I got the old Pentium as a hand-me-down, but this is like something transported through [...]

By: Goals and resolutions « Motho ke motho ka botho

Goals and resolutions « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:24:02 +0000

[...] the short list I had for goals in 2008, I did pretty well. I did manage to get my hands on a very obscure, slow machine, as well as a high-end computer for a short while. I also managed to properly configure my router [...]