On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 08:03:34AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 07:17:49PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:48:18PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:18:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:23:20PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > We could reminise about my 486 that doesn't run Debian anymore. I > > > wonder if Lenny will run on my P-II or if that's another box for > > > OpenBSD. > > > > hmmm... good question. It doesn't seem to me like there's been as much > > change between etch and lenny, relative to the sarge->etch > > transition. Of course, being all sid for my human-facing machines, I > > haven't used an etch-like system in a while now... > > The big problem was the memory requirements with bash hitting swap on > the 486 in Etch but not Sarge. I wonder how much memory Lenny's > installer will need; the P-II only has 64 MB. I'm sure this has been discussed before... I wonder how much of that bash overhead was just the improved tab-completion scripts and other add-ons like that... meh. > > > my household server here (bigmomma, .5TB) started out on an old > > pentium 90 system with the cpu on a daughter board. over time, that > > slot "wore out" (don't ask me how, because I don't know). At the end, > > I had to keep a rubberband pulling that daughter board at just the > > right angle, or the thing would lock up and not boot. Worked like that > > for years. > > Aren't you the one that said using a VT520 to access a P-II to ssh into > an Athlon64 to read mail was rube-goldberg? > > Thanks Mr. Pot. > > Kettle. Why yes indeed I was Mr. Kettle. Kind of you to notice. Pot A ;-P
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