Re: debian-trivia
uh.....I have a 386 laptop with 4M ram running a mix of slink and
potato :)
Will that be the oldest ?
It's not pingable atm because I need a plip cable to put it online
again.
I'll try to upgrade it to woody soon :)
Gr,
Ivo van Dongen
-----Original Message-----
From: Marcin Sochacki <wanted@gnu.univ.gda.pl>
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 21:19:15 +0100
Subject: Re: debian-trivia
> On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 08:45:38AM -0800, Josh Narins wrote:
> > Does anyone know the oldest piece of machinery, still
> > pingable, running Debian? What about not pingable?
> >
> > How about the least expensive machine, in real or
> > nominal terms, ever/still running Debian?
>
> How about this one:
> 153.19.120.53
> pingwin:~# uname -a
> Linux pingwin 2.0.34 #2 Tue Aug 25 16:01:09 CEST 1998 i486 unknown
> pingwin:~# uptime
> 9:08pm up 83 days, 5:54, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
> pingwin:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor : 0
> cpu : 486
> model : unknown
> vendor_id : unknown
> stepping : unknown
> fdiv_bug : no
> hlt_bug : no
> f00f_bug : no
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid : no
> wp : yes
> flags :
> bogomips : 24.99
> pingwin:~# cat /proc/meminfo
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 15249408 14843904 405504 8904704 5492736 4931584
>
> It's 486DX 50 MHz, 16 MB RAM in oldest (short) SIMMs and a
> motherboard with
> EISA slots. It used to have MDA graphics card and a special monitor,
> but some time ago I've switched to a cheapo Trident 512K SVGA,
> because
> of a lack of space for additional monitor in the rack (yes, the case
> is rack-mounted).
>
> It's running Debian slink, and currently is only busy with
> distributed.net
> client, samba and ftp server, but in the past also acted as a printer
> and mailing lists server.
>
> Marcin
>
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