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Thread: What's the OLDEST computer you have installed linux on?

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    What's the OLDEST computer you have installed linux on?

    I just installed Edubuntu 6.10 on my mom's ten-year-old Dell, which has a whopping 4.3 GB hard drive and 66 megs of RAM. I was afraid it might be a no-go for awhile because it was such a SLOW install... The installer actually went into 'low memory' mode while installing, and said I should create a swap file as soon as possible! All went well though, and now the kids are enjoying all the games...

    so what's the oldest computer you've installed linux on?

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    Re: What's the OLDEST computer you have installed linux on?

    Old emachines. Used to run Windows 95. 4.7GB Hard drive, 32mb RAM (i think), not sure about other specs since it is at home. DSL runs fantastic on this

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    Re: What's the OLDEST computer you have installed linux on?

    I used to run Arch on my pentium 2 233MHz box. It had 128MB of RAM (I upgraded it) and originally had a 4.3GB Quantum Bigfoot, but I upgraded it to an 80GB at some point. I didn't run X on this box.

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    Re: What's the OLDEST computer you have installed linux on?

    I run Xubuntu 7.10 on my older PC. I use it as a file server when I'm not at my parents house (which is where I keep it, I live in an apartment at my college town), and when I'm at my parents house I use it as a regular desktop PC.

    I got it at the very beginning of 2000, but it's been upgraded a little bit. It's a P3 450 mhz and 368mb of ram.

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    Re: What's the OLDEST computer you have installed linux on?

    Slackware 10.2 on a Pentium MMX 233MHz with 128MB RAM.

    I turned it into a "huge" file server with 8 hard drives totaling about 18GB.

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    Re: What's the OLDEST computer you have installed linux on?

    I ran feather Linux on a 133mhz laptop with a 1.5GB hard drive (thought that was a little odd), and 128MB of RAM. The screen was so slow (old lcd technology) that everything faded onto it. It looked like we were running compiz fusion or something.

    Anyway, it as completely useless, I didn't bother doing much with it. My friends and I submerged it in vegetable oil to see if it would still work (it did... nonconductive fluids rock) and then we set it on fire to watch it burn...

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    Re: What's the OLDEST computer you have installed linux on?

    I have two really old ones:

    - Firewall (SmoothWall)
    . CPU - 200Mhz
    . RAM - 96MB
    . HD - 10GB

    - Web Server, FTP and torrent - Ubuntu Dapper Server
    . CPU - 200Mhz
    . RAM - 160MB
    . HD - 10GB


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    Re: What's the OLDEST computer you have installed linux on?

    120mhz
    48mb ram
    1.2 gb hd

    runs dsl, not perfect but well enough to run

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    Re: What's the OLDEST computer you have installed linux on?

    I use an eight year old Toshiba Portege 3440CT every day, I have two hard drives and swap them from time to time, one always has Xubuntu 7.04 the other gets used for various distro testing, currently has a much customised Debian Etch on it.

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    Re: What's the OLDEST computer you have installed linux on?

    debian etch at a penitum 100mhz with 64mb of ram and a 250gb hd...

    web server, router and firewall, ftp and torrent

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