05-03-2010, 11:49 AM
So in the last few days i'm trying out few different distros for my secondary (old) pc and the one i've put together from various parts i found in house.
The latter one is ATM Celeron 733 (128KB L2, 66MHz bus), 256MB SDRAM. In it is Maxtor 15GB (it has really loud whiney sound, let alone the seek noise). Not a single peripheral device connected (working on it via VNC)
Will put CF to IDE adapter in this and 4GB CF card. Also will put Pentium 3 733 in this (256KB L2, 133MHz bus).
It will serve as a gateway (it does so atm already). But i want to put some Linux on it, would remove most of the stuff from it, only need packages for networking, forwarding and firewall.
Also other pc is only used for some internet & music in background. So it will for sure "recieve" Linux upgrade. Tried Ubuntu & Debian, didn't like those, some problems with VGA. But i found my old DVD of Suse 10, and quite like it so far. Fast, nice & easy to configure. Linux community appears to not like it due to some propriaetry code, but i have no problem with that. Actually i find the idea of closed source somewhat appealing, not much possibility for anyone to fudge around and add not always best/half working stuff.
Juha, have you been trying some more? I'll download openSuse 11 as i think it would be pretty good, and it will work. Even tough it's almost purely open source.
The latter one is ATM Celeron 733 (128KB L2, 66MHz bus), 256MB SDRAM. In it is Maxtor 15GB (it has really loud whiney sound, let alone the seek noise). Not a single peripheral device connected (working on it via VNC)
Will put CF to IDE adapter in this and 4GB CF card. Also will put Pentium 3 733 in this (256KB L2, 133MHz bus).
It will serve as a gateway (it does so atm already). But i want to put some Linux on it, would remove most of the stuff from it, only need packages for networking, forwarding and firewall.
Also other pc is only used for some internet & music in background. So it will for sure "recieve" Linux upgrade. Tried Ubuntu & Debian, didn't like those, some problems with VGA. But i found my old DVD of Suse 10, and quite like it so far. Fast, nice & easy to configure. Linux community appears to not like it due to some propriaetry code, but i have no problem with that. Actually i find the idea of closed source somewhat appealing, not much possibility for anyone to fudge around and add not always best/half working stuff.
Juha, have you been trying some more? I'll download openSuse 11 as i think it would be pretty good, and it will work. Even tough it's almost purely open source.