Re: Is beowulf cool and should I setup a bunch of old PCs to try it out?
- From: Ohmster <nowayin@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 01:09:17 +0200 (CEST)
mark south <marksouth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:pan.2007.05.16.15.33.10.653071@xxxxxxxxxxxx:
There were never any 400 MHz Pentiums, the PII came in about 200 MHz.
I had a PII or PIII, not sure what it was, but it ran at 450Mhz. Gone now,
mom wanted it so I put XP on it and she uses it for her email and web
surfing. It had 340Mb of RAM, not horribly slow but sure was not an
earthshaker, either.
There are numerous distros aimed at modest and older hardware, just go
looking for some. People have set up Internet cafes with a few PII
boxes.
Yeah that is true.
I have run (and still sometimes do) Absolute Linux on a 233 MHz PII
with 96 MB of RAM and a 6 GB disk. It works fine, although it slows a
bit once you have Firefox, Sylpheed, Audacious, and a few xterms
running :-)
Good to know.
Another experimental machine of mine is a 433 MHz PII with 128 MB. It
has run Puppy Linux pretty decently, Absolute excellently, and I have
also used Slackware, Debian Sid, and Ubuntu on it. The secret is to
install a basic server setup and then add lightweight window managers.
So basically, you could set these up as quite decent desktop machines
for a startup Internet cafe, for a local charity, or for some less
well off people in your neighbourhood who can't afford the few hundred
dollars for a Vista capable machine.
Good luck,
Mark
Thanks for the advice! Take care,
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