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Title: slackware or debian
Post by: choasforages on 13 June 2002, 02:38

i have a 60mhz pentium sitting around /*no i didt forget a zero*/ with a 500 megabyte harddrive and a massive 32 megs of ram. it is currently running debian but i am wondering whether slackware would be a better solution for it and for some that would ask this is not my main machine. but it can crunch a seti packet every week and i am wonder which runs faster

Title: slackware or debian
Post by: Heru on 13 June 2002, 03:11

On a machine that slow, I have no idea what would be better.

Sticking with debian might be the best idea, since it already works and as you said can do a SETI packet in a week(pretty good considering the machine's specs).

Title: slackware or debian
Post by: choasforages on 13 June 2002, 03:29

on that note i am in the middle of building a pentium 100mhz system, what do you guys think i should install on it

Title: slackware or debian
Post by: Master of Reality on 13 June 2002, 04:16

Hmmmmm.. You could always try building your own linux such as 'Linux from Scratch' or 'Build your Own Linux (BYO Linux)'

Title: slackware or debian
Post by: choasforages on 13 June 2002, 05:04

actaully, you might have missed my other post about ChoasnetOS, my idea was to build it thing on a 2 gig harddrive that is sitting in my 8 ide drive setup boot the machine with say a floppy, then have the floppy mount the / through nfs, and run the machine without a harddrive, that would almost be a diskless workstation

Title: slackware or debian
Post by: slave on 13 June 2002, 05:17

Just use Windows 95

Title: slackware or debian
Post by: ahri on 13 June 2002, 05:22

You might want to look into Gentoo Linux (http://www.gentoo.org/). It's supposed to be the fastest. They tweaked it up just for speed.

Title: slackware or debian
Post by: choasforages on 13 June 2002, 05:27

yeah i tried to get it working on my main computer but my isp was being ghey at the time /*still is*/ i will probably end up using gentoo, though, i just need the machine up now, i think i am going to use FreeBSD on it. actually, OpenBSD doens't look too bad, though, cuase i am looking to use the 100mhz system for a server, though thanks for the advice

Title: slackware or debian
Post by: choasforages on 13 June 2002, 05:30

o and for xp luser, suprissingly i am actally installing a MODERN os on the computer that will run very well a machine of those specs. BSD is soo damned good even microsoft uses it, so put that in your pipe and smoke it, /*couldn't resist telling the truth*/

Title: slackware or debian
Post by: slave on 13 June 2002, 05:33

BSD was created decades ago.  Give me a break.

Title: slackware or debian
Post by: choasforages on 13 June 2002, 05:42

how does one go about installing OpenBSD on a system with a scsi card and drive, i never tried to install OpenBSD on anything.