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Steels
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 Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 2:40 am Post subject: gentoo resurrects pentium3! |
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Yes! Gentoo did it again!
Thanks to gentoo, xfce4 and prelink my mum's old pentium 3 is usable again!
Pentium III (Katmai)
256MB sdram recognized only as 128MB stick (but compiled everything just fine!)
4GB Hard drive + 512MB Hard drive for swap
My mum uses linux! Firefox, Thunderbird, xMule and OpenOffice2!
Man, I LOVE that distro |
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mark_alec
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Congratulations on your victory  |
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djpharoah
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Location: Irvine, California USA
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| Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:49 am Post subject: |
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cool to hear..
but i have resurrected a P233 w/ mmx with gentoo
its now my parents router |
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Monkeh
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Location: England
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| Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 10:14 am Post subject: |
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| djpharoah wrote: | cool to hear..
but i have resurrected a P233 w/ mmx with gentoo
its now my parents router |
I have a 200mhz doing home server duties 
I'm gonna be putting Ubuntu on the family machine when me CDs arrive (It's a 633 Celeron, Gentoo is too much for the old heap), see if I can convert 'em |
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gkmac
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Location: West Sussex, UK
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| Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Monkeh wrote: | | djpharoah wrote: | cool to hear..
but i have resurrected a P233 w/ mmx with gentoo
its now my parents router |
I have a 200mhz doing home server duties |
...so do I, but originally it was a P90! Running Gentoo BTW, doing all of it's own compiling... |
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Monkeh
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Location: England
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| Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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| gkmac wrote: | | Monkeh wrote: | | djpharoah wrote: | cool to hear..
but i have resurrected a P233 w/ mmx with gentoo
its now my parents router |
I have a 200mhz doing home server duties |
...so do I, but originally it was a P90! Running Gentoo BTW, doing all of it's own compiling... |
I used my desktop for the initial setup, but now it does everything overnight. I can accept a slight slowdown in DNS resolving while it works  |
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mikegpitt
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| I installed gentoo on a P3 Thinkpad. I was pleasantly suprised how well and fast it ran. |
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re_re
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 05 Mar 2005
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Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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| Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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I have gentoo running on a p2 300mhz celeron as a NFS server and it also did all it's own compiling
I might add, I found the computer in the garbage lol
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Monkeh
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| Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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| re_re wrote: | | I might add, I found the computer in the garbage lol |
My P1 was pretty much pulled out of the big at my brother in laws workplace. |
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