In this age of newer is better there is a lot of hareware in use that
would have otherwise tossed on the scrap heap if it wasn't for 
GNU/Linux/OSS. Even if the hdd goes tits up it's still possible to
to use the machine with a bootable distro, and access network drives 
etc. Thanks guys and gals for making this possible. Keep up the good work.


Mark
-- 
Proudly bought to you by the letters O & S & the number 2.

"os2@www.com" <os2@www.com> writes:

> In this age of newer is better there is a lot of hareware in use that
> would have otherwise tossed on the scrap heap if it wasn't for
> GNU/Linux/OSS. Even if the hdd goes tits up it's still possible to
> to use the machine with a bootable distro, and access network drives
> etc. Thanks guys and gals for making this possible. Keep up the good
> work.

I had an old pentium 60 that I was using as a router, and the hard
disk died.  I didn't notice that the disk had died for 2 weeks,
because it was only running iptables, and the only disk accesses were
attempts to write to log files.  :)

os2@www.com wrote:

> In this age of newer is better there is a lot of hareware in use that
> would have otherwise tossed on the scrap heap if it wasn't for
> GNU/Linux/OSS. Even if the hdd goes tits up it's still possible to
> to use the machine with a bootable distro, and access network drives
> etc. Thanks guys and gals for making this possible. Keep up the good work.
> 
> 
> Mark

This will be especially true with the 2.6 kernel and KDE 3.2.  I've been giving
Mandrake 10.0 rc1 a test drive on a spare PC, and it's performance has
definitely improved.

There was a good article on Linux Today this week about the improvements to
KDE, many of which come through code re-use and optimization.

http://www.arstechnica.com/reviews/004/software/kde-3.2/kde-3.2-01.html

Who would have imagined, the latest and greatest versions of an operating
system and desktop that don't require a hardware upgrade to be usable.

Todd

os2@www.com wrote:

> In this age of newer is better there is a lot of hareware in use that
> would have otherwise tossed on the scrap heap if it wasn't for
> GNU/Linux/OSS. Even if the hdd goes tits up it's still possible to
> to use the machine with a bootable distro, and access network drives
> etc. Thanks guys and gals for making this possible. Keep up the good work.
> 
> 
> Mark



I'm typing this on an 8 year old Dell D300 with 192m of RAM running Knoppix 
3.1 and it runs GREAT. 

Yeah baby!

18:16:01 up  3:57,  0 users,  load average: 0.37, 0.20, 0.09
49 processes: 47 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   6.8% user,   4.1% system,   0.0% nice,  89.1% idle
Mem:    191924K total,   184220K used,     7704K free,     3472K buffers
Swap:        0K total,        0K used,        0K free,    77800K cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
  306 root      16   0 41904  32M  2492 R     5.7 17.4   3:25 XFree86 
-noreset -xf86config /etc/X11/
 5589 knoppix   16   0   948  948   744 R     1.8  0.4   3:11 top
  483 knoppix    9   0 15332  14M 12900 S     1.0  7.9   0:15 kdeinit: kde


-- 
Linux rocks. Try Knoppix and see for yourself!

Tom Randy wrote:

> os2@www.com wrote:
>
> > In this age of newer is better there is a lot of hareware in use that
> > would have otherwise tossed on the scrap heap if it wasn't for
> > GNU/Linux/OSS. Even if the hdd goes tits up it's still possible to
> > to use the machine with a bootable distro, and access network drives
> > etc. Thanks guys and gals for making this possible. Keep up the good work.
> >
> >
> > Mark
>
> I'm typing this on an 8 year old Dell D300 with 192m of RAM running Knoppix
> 3.1 and it runs GREAT.
>
> Yeah baby!
>
> 18:16:01 up  3:57,  0 users,  load average: 0.37, 0.20, 0.09
> 49 processes: 47 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states:   6.8% user,   4.1% system,   0.0% nice,  89.1% idle
> Mem:    191924K total,   184220K used,     7704K free,     3472K buffers
> Swap:        0K total,        0K used,        0K free,    77800K cached
>
>   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
>   306 root      16   0 41904  32M  2492 R     5.7 17.4   3:25 XFree86
> -noreset -xf86config /etc/X11/
>  5589 knoppix   16   0   948  948   744 R     1.8  0.4   3:11 top
>   483 knoppix    9   0 15332  14M 12900 S     1.0  7.9   0:15 kdeinit: kde
>
> --
> Linux rocks. Try Knoppix and see for yourself!

Cool must be great not to have to contend with malware and virus's hah?

Watch out for zombies ;).

Mark