Re: OT: Dual Pentium III, good enough for current 2.6 kernel linux?

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On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Robert L Cochran<cochranb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> My advice to you is to give the Pentium III box to a charity, and get
> yourself a new quad core Intel machine.

Why Intel? I prefer to support the underdog. Plus, AMD Opteron is better. ;-)

I didn't say that was my only machine. It's an old machine I keep
plugged on the home LAN (not powered on, luckily) and boot OS/2 from
time to time, for no reason other than updating Firefox and the like
(yes, there's 32-bit OS/2 builds for it ;-), and remembering about the
good old times when IBM had a clue, and a spine.

> Load it up with memory and start
> playing with virtualization. A new machine lets your work with all the new
> technologies that are coming out and you will be able to do so much more, if
> in fact you choose to do so.

Thanks for the advice. But I already have a dozen Virtualbox VMs in my
Dual-Core Opteron with 2 gigs of ram which runs Fedora 11.
My main question, which has been answered already, was if a PIII would
run a recent Linux with some decent performance to make it usable.

> Note that I'm not saying that you will do a
> whole lot more. But the potential is definitely there for you with a new
> machine. There is absolutely no technical reason today or a year from now to
> stick with an old machine. Get the new stuff and you won't be sorry.

I'm not sure a charity would do much with a Pentium III if then they
want to check out a Youtube video and find out the hardware is
underpowered to play a MPEG4 video.

I'd rather give a 9-inch Asus EEE to a charity. or a check for $200 so
they can buy one. (No wait, I'd rather send them the machine).
(But then, I don't believe in charities, generally speaking. Maybe a
school board from a school board I can walk to, but certainly not
anything bigger than that.)

I kinda liked what someone mentioned here about keeping it as a
working spare, with a recent linux. It might be handy to have around
in the event I mess my main system, or need to mess with partitions on
a disk from a live system, or...

In any case, thanks for your reply, and everyone else's. I don't want
to drag this thread too long. :)
FC

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