I have been wanting to play with Linux for a long time. My experiences with Microsoft products have been fair over the years (started off on an AT booting from 5-1/4" floppies) but lately with XP I have seen more issues than ever.
I had a few older laptops and desktops sitting around so I decided to give it a shot. DSL was recommended by another forum for the older systems.
It took me a while to figure out how Linux does things but DSL made it pretty simple. Started off on a P166 48MB machine and yesterday I started on installing it to a Gateway 2550 laptop, the machine I am currently typing this on. I had a fit getting the sound card to work but not as bad as getting my wife's wireless adapter to work on her XP machine.
DSL is one of the coolest things I have ever messed with and I like the small footprint. Many thanks to the developers for a fine product!
I have seen some sites with Embedded Linux and some real time distributions. I have a need to control a small biodiesel plant in the near future and I'm thinking that may be the ticket!Dude or Dudet, You have picked a great flavor of Linux. Congradulations on finding thisDSL.
DSL is great!!! I use version 2.3 as my web server.... I have my web server running on a P166mhz with 128mb of ram on a 2.1GB hard drive. People still have a hard time believing that my hardware is that old.
DSL is the best flavor of Linux. It kicks butt... My system has been up for 145 days and counting... no problems, no weirdness, just rock solid stable flavor of Linux.
I currently have 6 DSL machines and 1 SuSE 10 machine... SuSU is ok, but the fact I can use old hardware to do just about the same stuff as the SuSU, DSL takes the prize.
Welcome to the world is DSL!!!
Quote (NewDude @ Feb. 06 2007,00:49)
I have my web server running on a P166mhz with 128mb of ram on a 2.1GB hard drive. People still have a hard time believing that my hardware is that old.
I run the same. In spite of 133mZ the web server responds quickly. I have 128mb ram.
It''s a Compaq Armada 7770DMT from 1997 or 1999.
Lots of old laptops for sale used to create a web sever that makes little noise, little heat and small electriciy bill.
Using Apache 2. First used the embedded Monkey but it crashed randomly. No problem with Apache.
I love to hear about taking older systems and having a job for them and not throwing them away. I scored the P166mhz at a garage sale for $5. Most people will just gave them away.
I resently just migrated my website to a dual 350mhz, with 512mb of ram. It is amazing how fast DSL is on it. It is way over kill since I only have 384K bandwidth up and down. The P166mhz handled that workload fine.
Although, because I am running a forum with PHP and MySQL, I have noticed a increase in query speed. There have been a few improvements.
The P166mhz machine is a rock solid machine. DSL worked very, very, very, well on it. I am not going to retire it, it is now going to become my backup server and maybe failover system. If I need to do maintenance on the dual, I have use the P166mhz to run the web site while the other is down.
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