Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Jul 1998 13:27:46 -0700 (PDT) | From | Paul Duncan <> | Subject | Re: Old Hardware Users |
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> > > - anyone else care to speak up?
> > I used to use an old 386 with 4mb of ram with slackware but I recently Ditto. I have one with 5mb of RAM and another with 10mb of RAM networked together. After September, they will serve as an print/file server and an IP Masqerade server, respectively.
> > The Linux community seems to take pride in bringing old hardware to life > > again. With a 2.0.3x kernel I've heard that a 386 makes a nice and very > > cheap ip masq box and even a router. I would be sad to have that stop or > > Currently my 386 box (pokey) runs 2.0.34 for exactly that purpose. > Gives the four people at home access to the net without blocking any > one person's access. Great for solving fights. :-) This machine is > an 80386DX33, no FPU (although I am looking), 8MB RAM... It was one > of the *original* DX motherboards by DataTech... the 64k cache > control is actually implimented with discrete logic! Once it's up and > running it's great, but it takes well over 2 hours to compile the > kernel. :-) my 386sx/20 took like 4 1/2 hours the last time I compiled a kernel on it (in the bg, though)
> Indeed the Linux community SHOULD be DAMN proud to allow old hardware > such as this to function *extremely* well for these kinds of purposes. > I'm tired of the steady chanting from the other camps: "bigger faster > bigger faster bigger faster" to get much the same performance as their > OLD software did on their OLD hardware! I agree. The only real problem I have on this baby is text scrolling -- when the whole screen scrolls you can watch it update each line. :(
> The only complaint I've had with my old '386 is that every few days it > refuses to let anyone log in (connection is established but nothing is > ever sent) or alternatively, if you do get to log in, it *thinks* that > it is making the modem dial but in fact the modem isn't doing > anything. I'll have to try to reinstall Slack again to see if this > cures it.
never had a problem with the modem on mine. Of course, it's not doing ip masquerading yet either. :)
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