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By: APM, and the value in Linux « Motho ke motho ka botho

APM, and the value in Linux « Motho ke motho ka botho — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:01:23 +0000

[...] have to offer a public thank-you to Alex, who pointed out the APM discussion on the kernel mailing list. I’ve been through the [...]

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:02:58 +0000

Thanks, that’s very interesting. I’ll follow that closely. Cheers.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 02:17:44 +0000

I thought that you should have a look at the ongoing discussion on removing APM (replaced by ACPI now) from the linux kernel (thereby reducing support of vintage hardware):
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/linux-pm/2011-March/030684.html

By: Vicente Manuel Munoz Milchorena

Vicente Manuel Munoz Milchorena — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:07:22 +0000

Hey there!

Just adding a quick note about that, yes the blog is for Metal on Southern California and Baja California so I think that’s a little south of what you were expecting.

Regardless here’s the address of the blog: http://thesurgetechblog.blogspot.com/

Final note, if you’re interested in the Media Server project you could be interested in a LAN Party Management System that’s been in the work for the last… 4 years I believe?

I’m just saying. Have fun!

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 21:23:26 +0000

I double-checked with Vincente when I published this, and that’s the address he gave. It’s possible his site doesn’t focus much on Linux. Everyone has a variety of interests.

By: Ruben Berenguel

Ruben Berenguel — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:35:29 +0000

I’m sad my old Pentium II, 233Mhz 288MB RAM died, before being able to give it a second life as a home server. Now the only “outdated” computer I have is my old notebook, an Acer Aspire with AMD (don’t remember the model) 3200 and 1 GB RAM (IIRC). But this will probably be left for my mother’s net browsing. The only “shorthanded” system I’m using correctly is my Ben Nanonote, the handheld computer by Qi Hardware. I’m using it to run TaskWarrior in a ssh session, that I can then plug at home in my Mac and in my office in Linux (read more here: Using TaskWarrior instead of emacs+org mode for to-do / appointment tracking).

Maybe when my two year old Acer Aspire One needs a new life I could use it as a smallish home server… So far it works too well with Arch Linux and fluxbox. And for the uses I put it to (emacs, LaTeX, and lightweight mathematical computing) it can last a few more years.

Cheers,

Ruben

By: JMO

JMO — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:00:24 +0000

Same here. I’m glad for you, and hope things get better in time around there.

Also, ammonia works wonderful on making computer-things white again. I don’t know how. It just does it.

By: koleoptero

koleoptero — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:00:34 +0000

I’m glad you’re ok mate, I was a bit worried since you’re the only person I know about who’s in Japan. Keep it up.

By: Trailbent

Trailbent — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:06:30 +0000

My little collection of old machines includes a tower with a K6-2 350Mhz 64MB/10GB currently running Debian 6 with dwm and mostly cli apps, but it can run ice weasel OK. I also have a Toshiba Satellite 2060CDS with K6-2 366Mhz 32MB/4GB. It can run a very lightweight Puppy 4.2 derivative called Pulp, which uses GTK 1.2 apps, but I mainly use a console only install of Slitaz 3.0 with screen, elinks, alpine, and moc. Of course, I’ve learned about these things from this blog.

By: christian

christian — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:52:42 +0000

Hello K. Mandla,
I was interested in Vincente’s home server. I followed the link but it seems to send to a totally different site. Is it correct?
Thank you and kind regards.