So what are you running on the P3 450? -----Original Message----- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 13 August 2006 9:44 a.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Suse
On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 01:30:42 +1200 Ross Drummond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sorry to rain on this free OS parade but modern graphical *nux > distributions are created on the assumption that it has comparatively recent > moderately grunty hardware to run on. > > To get a decent graphical experience in Linux on this box is an exercise in > masochism, and probably beyond Reg's skills. > > My recommendation to Reg if he is prepared to make the modest investment is to > purchase a late model second hand box from someone like the computer broker. > > My other advise is to match the distribution to the same era as the computer > (well sort of) and use a distribution such as Mandrake 8.2. > > My final observation is that Win98 is designed to run on Reg's machine specs. > It may be best if this box is left to degrade into obsolescence with the > operating system designed to run on its hardware. > > Cheers Ross Drummond All very true. However such machines can be very useful as firewalls, file servers, print servers etc. I have a P3 450 MHz machine that I slipped a 300G hard drive into and it runs fine doing bittorrenting and file serving. More RAM can often help machines with old specs more than a faster CPU. > > On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:25, Reg wrote: > > Well I just tried again to install Suse on my Celeron 333 and it hangs > > completely when it gets to the point of checking for hardware. > > > > I like Suse as it's nice and graphical, but how does this lighter Free BSD > > compare to it? I ean is it all text and command based or is nice and pretty > > like Suse :-) ?
