Comments on: One week at 100Mhz: Lessons learned

By: Howto: Switch to a console lifestyle « Motho ke motho ka botho

Howto: Switch to a console lifestyle « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:31:56 +0000

[...] Shop around, find something you like, and install it. Then spend a week with it. I lived at 100Mhz for a week almost two years ago (has it been that long?) and I was amazed at what I could get [...]

By: In every obstacle, opportunity « Motho ke motho ka botho

In every obstacle, opportunity « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:54:39 +0000

[...] said a few weeks ago, after living at 100Mhz for a full week, that I wouldn’t have any compunction about doing it in the longer term. One of the things that convinced me then was the fact that I [...]

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:18:09 +0000

I’m such a sucker for old hardware. I dig old PC’s out of dumpsters every day on my way to work and spend the day dreaming about what I’ll turn them in to when I get home.

By: siavash

siavash — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:50:43 +0000

thanks for article , i learned so much from it
i like your hardware page so much

By: Don’t let this happen to you « Motho ke motho ka botho

Don’t let this happen to you « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:37:04 +0000

[...] Set up Ubuntu for speed « One week at 100Mhz: Lessons learned [...]

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:59:29 +0000

An_dynas: Hmm. I think for sheer function, elinks is something that deserves better attention. But the question might be a little too broad; after all, there are probably a half-dozen terminal applications worth investigating fully, but they fall into different “categories” and are standouts in those groups. Let me think about this a little longer, and maybe I can come up with a better list.

By: An_dynas

An_dynas — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:33:26 +0000

Thank you for this experiment, K. As always your insight and your writing are lucid. I, like lots of people, will occasionally dabble in console apps, mostly to get that lightening-fast response time for simple tasks we have come not to expect from modern, cushy distros.

Here’s my question, if you had to suggest one console app that people should really try and use in a functional way, what would it be? And you can’t say any word-processor since that is one (possibly the only) arena where true WYSIWYG is of value. What do you say?

By: Marshall

Marshall — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:42:16 +0000

Interesting that I came upon this blog: I run my recent dual-core Vostro 1500 the exact same way you run your 550 Mhz compy. However, I have an older computer that I turned in to a server and torrent machine by adding an external hard drive – it runs at my house a state away (I’m in college) and downloads torrents I scp into its download directory, and places them in a directory I can access via apache. There’s always something useful that can be done with an old computer.

By: Nergui

Nergui — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:10:29 +0000

Once again, regarding editors, I feel compelled to suggest Zile: http://www.gnu.org/software/zile/

It’s a lightweight clone of Emacs. The only potential drawback I see is lack of Unicode support; whether that’s a dealbreaker depends on your needs.

Actually, though, Vim is my own full-time editor, and I’m perfectly happy with it. I just know you found Vi traumatic and already put some time into learning Emacs, so it couldn’t hurt to try.