On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 04:47:36PM -0500, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
The laptop I used three or four years ago in England with Mandrake 10.1 on it does not have enough disk space to run any of the big, current distros like Mandriva or Ubuntu, and while it can run DSL, I couldn't find any of my network cards that I could get DSL to support.
Some people talk about Linux extending the life of old hardware - their old hardware must be a lot newer than my old hardware.
Yes, I don't run anything older than a Pentium anymore.
root@charon:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 5 model : 2 model name : Pentium 75 - 200 stepping : 5 cpu MHz : 100.248 cache size : 0 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 up bogomips : 201.24
root@charon:~# free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 12604 11888 716 0 736 5952 -/+ buffers/cache: 5200 7404 Swap: 31144 1436 29708 root@charon:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on LABEL=/ 366M 262M 86M 76% / none 6.2M 0 6.2M 0% /dev/shm root@charon:~# ps faux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.5 768 72 ? Ss Apr03 0:03 init [3] root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SN Apr03 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Apr03 0:01 [events/0] root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Apr03 0:00 [khelper] root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Apr03 0:00 [kthread] root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Apr03 0:03 _ [kblockd/0] root 10 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Apr03 0:00 _ [khubd] root 12 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Apr03 0:00 _ [kseriod] root 62 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Apr03 0:20 _ [pdflush] root 64 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Apr03 0:00 _ [aio/0] root 718 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Apr03 0:00 _ [ata/0] root 808 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Apr03 0:00 _ [kpsmoused] root 1042 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Apr03 0:16 _ [rpciod/0] root 29259 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Apr30 0:09 _ [pdflush] root 63 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Apr03 0:48 [kswapd0] root 889 0.0 1.8 1816 232 ? Ss Apr03 0:02 /usr/sbin/syslogd root 892 0.0 1.4 1672 188 ? Ss Apr03 0:00 /usr/sbin/klogd -c 3 -x root 919 0.9 2.3 1692 292 ? Ss Apr03 841:54 /sbin/dhcpcd -d -t 60 eth0 root 1000 0.0 0.0 3824 0 ? Ss Apr03 0:08 /usr/sbin/sshd root 2028 0.0 2.4 6548 312 ? Ss Apr03 31:14 _ sshd: root@pts/0 root 2030 0.0 7.5 2736 948 pts/0 Ss Apr03 0:37 _ -bash root 27266 0.0 7.0 2308 884 pts/0 R+ 09:17 0:00 _ ps faux root 2019 0.0 0.0 1668 0 tty1 Ss+ Apr03 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux root 25333 0.0 5.6 3840 716 ? Ss May08 0:37 /usr/sbin/ntpd -g -p /var/run/ntpd.pid root@charon:~# uptime 09:18:38 up 63 days, 8:31, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.04, 0.00 root@charon:~# cat /etc/slackware-version Slackware 11.1.0 root@charon:~#
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