RE: stuff and the thing

["Burke, Jason" <JBurke@lrs.com>]

Well, I didn't recompile so you're probably right on about why 
it was crawling (honestly, it took about 8 minutes to boot, and
get into KDE). For me, one of Linux's greatest strengths is 
that it can give new life to old equipment, and I was real pleased
with the results of the Red Hat install, so I guess i'm becoming
a Red Hat zelot (I'm sure there are worse things - like being a
Slackware addict *hehe* =).

As far as finding an ISA video card, good luck. I have a couple
of VLB Mach cards, but I don't think they will do you any good.
I would think that a 486 box would be a better "Look what
Linux can run on" box since there is probably alot more 486s
still around, but it's your call. =).

Gotta run, friday morning meeting (*yay*yawn*),

Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Tesla Coil [SMTP:tescoil@rtpro.net]
> Sent:	Friday, May 07, 1999 8:28 AM
> To:	luci-discuss@luci.org
> Subject:	Re: stuff and the thing
> 
> 
> On 6 May 1999, Jason Burke wrote:
> 
> > I really like the Caldera install. However, I noticed last weekend
> > (while doing an install for someone else) that on older computers
> > it doesn't scale down well at all (we had this poor 486 just crawling
> > like a worm on sandpaper).
> 
> Possible that their default kernel is compiled assuming a Pentium,
> or did you recompile for a 486?  I've heard suggestion that a kernel
> compile for a Pentium won't even run on an older machine, but that
> could have just meant "crawl like a worm."  It's been common practice
> for distributions to default to 386, but I could see Caldera ceasing
> to do so.  Their mininum req's on 2.2 call for 32Mb RAM; some 386
> boards maxed at sixteen.
> 
> Speaking of older machines, I mentioned at Computerfest we should
> have had a 386 there for sake of "if Linux can do this on this platform,
> you know it's efficient."   I'm assembling that demo unit, trying to get
> a head start so I have plenty of time to tweak it silly.  I put a folding
> handle on case so it lugs easy--friends find that concept pretty cute,
> a portable tower case.  But, dang it, where can I find a decent SVGA
> card for an ISA slot?   I used to have that S3 Virge; transferred that to
> a Pentium 100, which is long gone.  Now all I find is PCI or just VGA.
> 
> BTW, got myself a K6-2 450 now, so maybe I can qualify to be in the
> cluster at the Computerfest, hopefully to occur in 2000, and not 1900.
> 
> 
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