Ted
humble apologies for unintentionally slagging off your kit. I did make a
typo in my message...for Pentium II read Pentium.
no hard feelings?
secondly....dates for meeting.....all suggested in November are fine by
me....but I can't donate kit....just hands....
Neil
>Neil Errington writes:
>> [...] I have one set up that I am having trouble with on some very old
>> hardware so I'd come along anyway just to pick brains (system is Pentium II
>> 233MHz on dual boot with Win95 (only for the case of operating an instrument
>> that has Win95 only software requirements)).
>
>Less of the "very old" if you don't mind!
>
>I'm happily using a Pentium 133MHz with 64MB ram and 12GB scsi
>as a desktop workstation at home, running linux-2.2.19 and X11.
>Originally I set it up as a look-a-like for my desktop machine
>at work (sun), with similar text/www/mail/graphics/programming
>facilities. That was 6 years ago, but I'm not expecting to scrap
>it for a year or two yet.
>
>This must be another of linux's big advantages - longer life for
>desktop machines. There's no need to run humungous applications
>such as all the K stuff, Netscrape, StarOrifice, VMWare, when
>simpler tools are available for unix.
>
>I use twm as window-manager, with ~40 applications in its menus,
>although I presume I could add lots more if I wanted more things
>to click on. (Anyone know how well this scales?)
>
>The main thing I lack is fast 3D rendering with the current setup.
>
>I boggle at how single-users keep 2GHz machines occupied.
>
>Isn't this relevant for desktop machines in the workplace too?
>What is their average lifetime?
>
>Ted.
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>Ted Marston <ted@nowtsfree.freeserve.co.uk>
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