Comments on: Nothing to scoff at: Arch Linux, 300Mhz Celeron

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:37:58 +0000

Thank you, will try, good to know!

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:50:46 +0000

I am afraid you might be mistaken. The Arch installer will boot on quite a bit less than 160Mb. Put the CD in and give it a try, Michael. It should work for you. It might be slow, but I can vouch for it working.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:10:27 +0000

How exactly did you get Arch Linux onto this, with only 64MB RAM? From what I can tell, I thought 160MB is the installer’s minimum requirement, with 128MB considered difficult. Did you use an old version, or copy an installation from another hard drive? I have similar machines I’d like to do that with…

By: The lesson of the Celeron « Motho ke motho ka botho

The lesson of the Celeron « Motho ke motho ka botho — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:59:26 +0000

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Not with a whimper but a bang « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:55:34 +0000

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Lessism over minimalism « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:02:17 +0000

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Links 19/4/2010: Synaptics Gesture Suite on Linux | Techrights — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:23:13 +0000

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By: leorockway

leorockway — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:16:05 +0000

I run gNewSense 2.3 in my home server. It’s a Pentium with 233MHz, 64MB of RAM and 4MB of video. So Ubuntu (or at least older versions of it) would run on a computer like that. X is out of the question, of course.

By: Managing my addiction « Motho ke motho ka botho

Managing my addiction « Motho ke motho ka botho — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:34:16 +0000

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By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:20:35 +0000

Well, one for each torrent, of course. Just kidding. Only one really, the one you see in this post. And it does feel like I get a new machine a month, but this is the first since February. Occasionally I shuffle machines out the door without mentioning it, which is probably bad form.

And yes, I think traffic has gone up a little bit since I got on the kernel.net feed. I don’t think I can show that with statistics, but it does seem to be the case.