Anti Linux P2-350 now rund Debian Linux

[Omnios]

Over the last few months I had a few threads pertaining to my P2-350. It when't from Win98 to PC-BSD because Ubuntu would not install on it. Anyways there where a few other reasons I had BSD and one of them was because my ethernet card was a linksys thats chipset was changed during the release making mine non driver complient. I managed to get a new linksys ethernet card from a cable guy for free and spent the day installing and configuring Debian.

My P2-350 now proadly Runs Debian linux exclusivly and gnome runs rather well in it. I looked in the admin help and there are a few other tricks to make it run quicker which I will be buisy setting up. As for win 98 there is not much of a performace difference other than needing more ram.

When I bought this computer about eight years ago the sales man told me it was not possible to run Linux on it but thanks to Debian it is running linux and rather well.

[mstlyevil]

Over the last few months I had a few threads pertaining to my P2-350. It when't from Win98 to PC-BSD because Ubuntu would not install on it. Anyways there where a few other reasons I had BSD and one of them was because my ethernet card was a linksys thats chipset was changed during the release making mine non driver complient. I managed to get a new linksys ethernet card from a cable guy for free and spent the day installing and configuring Debian.

My P2-350 now proadly Runs Debian linux exclusivly and gnome runs rather well in it. I looked in the admin help and there are a few other tricks to make it run quicker which I will be buisy setting up. As for win 98 there is not much of a performace difference other than needing more ram.

When I bought this computer about eight years ago the sales man told me it was not possible to run Linux on it but thanks to Debian it is running linux and rather well.

You should go back and tell the salesman never say never.

[eMuNiX]

I have Kubuntu and Win2K dual booting on my daughters P2-350 and also have both OS running wirelessly with a 54g USB card. Taken a while to get it playing properly but it works a treat, definately life in the old dog yet :)

[KiwiNZ]

Eight years ago it probably wasnt possible if it was a new machine then. In circa 1998 Hardware support in distros was light . Eight years on things have changed.