You know, I have my doubts about the AMD K6-2 and its suitability for modern Linux.
I have three machines: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4 GHz), 2 GB RAM, Ubuntu 7.10 64-bit. SlimServer 6.5.4. Obviously a monster. If it performs anything less than instantaneously I get peeved. :-) AMD Duron 1.2 GHz, 512 MB RAM, Ubuntu 7.10 32-bit, latest SqueezeCenter 7.0 nightly build. It's slower than the first one obviously, but still runs SC7 very fast. I'd say this would be equivalent to the 1 GHz mini-ITX system you're considering, but the mini-ITX system will have more RAM. AMD K6-2 400 MHz, 192 MB RAM, Xubuntu 7.10. I play around with this one just because I have it. It's obviously very slow, even with xfce. There's also this very annoying CPU lockup which will happen from time to time, I haven't been able to track it down. It also likes to "stick" the keyboard, thinking I'm pressing and holding a key down when I'm not. More or less unusable. I suppose I could install Ubuntu Server 7.10 on it and try SC7 as I now have enough command-line knowledge to do this but I don't see much of a point. Everyone says that Linux has reduced hardware requirements and this is the case, but is a K6-2 just -too- slow? In my experience, yes. Maybe I'll bash around with Ubuntu Server and see if I get a little more power out of it, but as is, it's unusable. -- Mark Lanctot Ben Klass: "I won't even eat a pre-7.0 meal. Well, unless it involves bacon." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42956 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
