On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:09:48AM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: > one of the most famous desktop boards for pentium 3 slot cpus was the > asus p3b-f. it can handle 4 dimms with a total capacity of 1gb (lucky me > had such a machine in 2000/2001. :).
Just for another data point, I *presently* use one of these as my primary workstation and media player at home, connected via DVI/HDMI from a Radeon 9000 to my hi-def 60" Sony at 720p (1280x720 desktop in X.org with the service menus on the TV adjusted so I can see every last pixel on that input). Runs Debian/sid and works like a charm, 1GiB RAM, 600MHz Pentium 3, pair of SCSI drives in an MD RAID-1 mirror, IDE DVD+R burner, wireless Ethernet, Bluetooth drawing tablet and folding keyboard... So yeah, a Pentium 3 based desktop can still do *a lot* (thanks in no small part to the extremely efficient operating system running on it--kudos, everyone!). Of course, back to the original topic at hand, I tend to do package management on that machine via aptitude in command-line mode over SSH from a laptop... haven't touched dselect in eons. -- { IRL(Jeremy_Stanley); PGP(9E8DFF2E4F5995F8FEADDC5829ABF7441FB84657); SMTP([EMAIL PROTECTED]); IRC([EMAIL PROTECTED]); ICQ(114362511); AIM(dreadazathoth); YAHOO(crawlingchaoslabs); FINGER([EMAIL PROTECTED]); MUD([EMAIL PROTECTED]:6669); WWW(http://fungi.yuggoth.org/); } -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]