distros are there that will even run on this box? Is Gentoo the only Linux hope for a 133 MHz MIPS? How well would a full-blown or even partial KDE run on it?
Currently, Debian is the only other distro that maintains a mips port of any great repute. There is also an old redhat 7.1 mips port, as well as some smaller distros. I think Rock linux supports mips.
I have a 133 MHz Pentium MMX, admittedly with only 32 MB of RAM. I just barely got Debian Woody to run in it, and KDE (2.something!) was a stretch. It would come up, but it wasn't very responsive. I ended up going to the Enlightenment desktop on it. Funny thing is, this machine (Libretto 70CT, actually) did a very good job with Windows 95, and I've heard of folks successfully running NT 4.0 on them.
x86 != mips That 133mhz mips processor likely smokes your pentium 133 w/MMX. To put it in perspective, I run kde on my r5k 180mhz O2, and it is quite responsive, even without an accelerated X driver. On my indy, I run gnome, and it does quite well. These machines were designed to be graphical workstations.
When is it time to take these old things out behind the barn and shoot them?
Your x86 box perhaps deserved this a long time ago, but not indys. They are still quite useful.
Steve
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