[Novalug] Distros for old PCs?

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Sat May 18 18:22:26 EDT 2013


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Will show memory (free also)

more /process/cpuinfo
For CPU and other stuff.

Looks like Xeon and up to 8g so not too shabby. The chips are fine for any
distro. If there is a decent video card and ram will make the difference.
So you could run Fedora 18 or Ubuntu if there is 2g ram (sure runs with
more or less but that is usually my entry)
 On May 18, 2013 3:34 PM, "Beartooth" <beartooth@beartooth.info> wrote:

> On Sat, 18 May 2013, greg pryzby wrote:
>
>  I don't recall what the hardware is (cpu and memory)
>>
>
>         That's an awkward question. It doesn't seem to have lshw, nor any
> other hardware browser that I recognize as such; without getting online, I
> know no way of installing one; and I can't ssh into it from another machine.
>
>         I do see on the front of the case that it's a Dell PowerEdge
> SC1420. I know that it was a server before being handed down to me, with
> two hard drives and some form of one staying ready to jump in for the
> other, and with that feature removed when it got handed down to me, so that
> I have twice the storage and less security. I believe the drives are 40 GB
> each.
>
>         I did check both ends of the ethernet cable -- and that reminds me
> that I haven't tried replacing the cable entirely. I'll go do that now.
>
>
>  On May 18, 2013 10:46 AM, "Beartooth" <beartooth@beartooth.info> wrote:
>>
>>  On Sat, 18 May 2013, Jason P. Thomas wrote:
>>>
>>>  I don't know how willing you are to depart from rpm land, but
>>>> I've had some luck on older hardware with Bodhi Linux
>>>> (www.bodhilinux.com).  The 32-bit install works on some circa
>>>> year 2000 laptops I have kicking around at work. Other users
>>>> have had great success with the nonpae kernel version on
>>>> equally old if not older hardware.
>>>>
>>>
>>>         I have bodhi, bodhi non-pae, and bloated bodhi ISOs, all
>>> of them variants on 2.2, downloaded but not yet tried. Is there
>>> an obvious first choice?
>>>
>>>         Believe it or not, I also have CentOS 6.4 installed, up,
>>> and running -- but it keeps failing to connect for some reason
>>> ....
>>>
>>>         Networkmanager applet 0.8.1 runs blue rings around in the
>>> panel for a while, then reports itself disconnected. It also
>>> offers a pseudo-choice, if I right-click, between Wired
>>> Connection and eth0; in fact, the cable to the router is the only
>>> connection the machine has or has ever had.
>>>
>>>         I've tried such things as I could find to get a
>>> connection, in vain.
>>>
>>>         If there's a good fix, I'd like to get Jo running CentOS,
>>> because it's one obvious choice for her to have against such time
>>> as I'm gone. (I don't at all claim to be the Oldest Novalugger,
>>> but at my age it would be irrational not to plan for such
>>> contingencies.)
>>> --
>>> Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
>>> Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
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>>
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