Re: Upgrade Time Again

[Jim Jackson <nospam [at] scs.leeds.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Matthew Collins wrote:

> > My new Linux box uses an AMD K6-2 3D 450 MHz cpu and has a built in
> >8Mb AGP video chip and sound chip. You might well question wether
> >the sound chip will work with SuSE 6.1 :-( It's also got 128Mb of
> >100MHz NVRAM. Very useful for Star Office :-) Then there's the 10Gb
> >hard drive which is useful for some programming work with all of the
>
> Wow. 128MB of Non-volatile ram! :)

:-) Wonnerful concept - switch it off and when you switch on again you can
startup where you left off!

> I think 10 Gb will keep you going for quite some time. I'm having
> trouble filling up 5.6 Gb with Debian (Which has a lot more packages
> etc etc, do we see a theme developing here. Isn't distribution
> advocacy wonderful)

I use Debian too - I also program, so far My 3.4G disk holds well under 1G
for both Linux and DOS and Win3.11 . It's not just about distributions and
advocacy - it's about resisting the hype from Micro$haft, and the PC
makers that you HAVE to have all this power, disk space, RAM etc etc just
to basically function. You don't. You may need the CPU/Graphics power and
disk space and memory for playing some of the high end games, and for
getting any of the M$ products to run, but with linux you have the choice.
And if you are not wedded to a windowing environment them your choice is
even greater - you can run on very modest machines and run very well.

> I've got my old 166 acting as an Internet gateway now. I've set it up
> as a mail server, ppp dial up, dns server for my own little network.
> It's amazing what a difference a caching dns server makes to your
> internet connection, and it's quite easy to set up. I haven't got IP
> Masq. working yet, but I haven't really had time to play with it.

In quite recently upgraded to a 166 :-)

My retired 486 is earmarked for a similar setup, either that or I may
cobble together various bits to create a 386DX40 box with 8M RAM and 2x40M
hard disks and see how that does - problem as always is time :-(

Jim

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