Hi, On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 01:59:30PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > I expect a kernel compile may take all night on that CPU, you need to > _at least_ double the RAM, the hard drive is _way_ too small.
It's pretty much fine if you don't run mozilla, kde, gnome etc on the machine. I wouldn't both compiling a kernel in this day and age - it isn't worth the time especially as you can just modprobe the stuff you need. Disk is fine. The box i'm using has about 1.2Gb on it and i'm doing a LOT with it (read 300Mb is a Postgres DB plus workstation plus mail and web server). > If they're going to just act as shell logins (to teach CLI / bash / > networking / etc.) they may be fine. Would I want to use Linux on > those boxes now? I don't think so. Most basic X apps will work fine on something that old and slow. In fact I used to use one about that fast (with a chunk more RAM) running Oracle for 20 users as a development server. > If you can dig up one other machine and load it to the gills with ram > and fast disk, you could turn it all into a NIS/NFS network that might > do well. > > This is assuming Linux runs on PA-RISC; offhand, I can't remember if > it does. It does, and Debian has a PA-RISC port (hppa) :-) http://www.parisc-linux.org/ http://www.debian.org/ports/hppa/ Cheers, - Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
