all this chatting about linux, what can be done with a 200mhz machine? - Page 2

TheLlama · 06-26-2006, 11:12 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by kraft

OT: Lol TheLlama just help yourself, i found this while searching things related to linux on the net, this one is not my creation.
Would be nice to find someone which is able to do a kind of resin inclusion of this logo, it could look then like the plastic epia's logo

Not anymore... you changed your avatar.

TruckinMP3 · 06-26-2006, 11:43 AM

I like the unix based OS... As an option and from experiance using a 200MMX (P1) I used win2k with good results.

Food for thought and not as a 'better' option just an option. I bet the performance is not as good as DSL.

Atomic · 06-26-2006, 07:10 PM

If you're going with CLI (Command Line Interface) not to be confused with CLIT (Command Line Interface Terminal) learn how to use screen. Screen will let you run more than one program from the command line. So you could be using irssi chatting on irc in one screen and copying files in another and running nano in yet another. Though with 200 mhz you're going to be stretching it to do many things at the same time. :P

EDIT: And I use archlinux. It can be pretty small or as large as you want it. I can't remember what the minimum foot print is.

jnorion · 07-18-2006, 10:47 AM

Sorry to bump an older thread, but I have another question on this subject. I just discovered linux distributions for Ipaqs at www.handhelds.org. They are supposed to be able to run a full linux system with GUI on about 32mb, with a 200mhz processor. I don't know if these would port to a standard computer, but it would be interesting to try. Even on an old processor that would load fast. Anyone have ideas about this?

breaker021 · 07-18-2006, 11:22 AM

I once had a $50 HP pc that I bought from a lady moving out of the country... I threw in two nics, installed slackware 7.1 WITHOUT GUI - and I used it as a firewall for like 2 years. My best uptime was like 290 days and the only reason it wasn't higher was because I was getting tired of how stable it was and i wanted to play with it some more! lol!

I used that as a firewall to protect another pentium 200mhz webserver that i was running. at the time, i used to do a ton of ebay auctions and i hosted all of my own pictures right on that 200mhz machine ;]

just make sure that you have a good amount of ram in that machine - you can pick some up on craigslist or ebay as long as people aren't over charging you for it. You should pay like $5 or (reluctantly) $10 for like 256mb or more.

Almost ALL Linux distributions have command line mp3 players. that's a good starting point for ya. you can look into... maybe a "nicer command line but gui" mp3 player but i can't name any off the top of my head right now...
- sh00k

konfoo · 07-18-2006, 09:06 PM

http://www.maemo.org/screenshots.html

200mhz...

shurke · 08-30-2006, 07:52 AM

i had debian testing on a Pentium 200 MMX with 128mb ram for about 2 years in my old car. it ran just with minimal services installed but with XFree86 and enlightenment (dr16) as a windowmanager. xmms was on top of it fullscreen, as it was only a audio playback machine.

i used ext3 as filesystem and because it's a journalling filesystem, i had no need to shutdown the computer. i just made a hard-reset everytime i turned the engine off. in these 2 years of usage i never broke any file on the entire system because of a bad journal entry or something...

TheLlama · 08-30-2006, 12:17 PM

mp3blaster is a nice interactive console mp3 player IMHO.