older distros and machine for sale wasRe: [oclug] Kudos to Vic! :-)

[Jon Earle]

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Robert Brockway wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Peter Timusk wrote:
>
> Hi Peter.  I'd be very surprised if you found the memory requirements of
> Debian 3.0 were much more (or any more) than 2.1.  Any vaugely modern
> system should be usable with a modern distro.  The minimum memory to
> install Debian 2.1 or Debian 3.0 should be the same.

Yup.. kronos is running on a P200MMX w/ 64MB RAM.  System is a Debian
woody install.

Gateway at home is much the same, except only 32MB RAM.

The old boxes run fine without a GUI, but things like scripted webapps
(SquirrelMail, Gallery and such) are slow.

-- 
Jon Earle
Software Developer / Network Manager
Specializing in Open Source Software Solutions
http://kronos.honk.org/~earlej/