What Linux Flavor For 166MHz System

hey, what about overclocking that badboy?

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Originally posted by ewitte
Putty works good as a ssh client.

Eric

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yes it does, in windows I use putty and securecrt, which ever I feel like at the time.

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Originally posted by Colossus
Slackware is awesome! It can be tweaked down to the bare minimal :)

I see you are running a 166Mhz too.. Like me!!!! Its a killer Processor!!!

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yeah of course it is. it is just a bunch of options to the c compiler, and that goes for any *nix there is.

But with gentoo, everything is so nice and automated with portage, and gentoo has such nice documentation aswell as the best forum there ever was. It was a great that they incorporated this idea that the bsds have used so long now.

For a system I was going to change frequently and update very often I would use gentoo just because portage making like so much easier, but if I just planned on installing the os, and making no major cahnges, I would use redhat or slackware since the gentoo install (even with stage3 and grp) is no fun at all.

Intel Pentium 166 MMX | Intel Marl Motherboard | 64MB EDO | Seagate 3.4GB ATA33 | Diamond Stealth 64 3200 | SoundBlaster AWE32 | AOpen Tower | Acer 14" 34T CRT | Windows 95





woah, I didn;t think systems that old could support over 2 gig hard drives or something like that.

gentoo really rocks. i just put it on a PII300 i picked up (64mb/4mb matrox) to experiment with firewalls/mail servers, etc. it took about a week to compile everything (with X), but it is f-a-s-t. it boots in like 15 seconds. :D

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Originally posted by serotone9
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Are you insulting my gaming rig? :p

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Originally posted by Colossus
Are you insulting my gaming rig? :p

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rolfma :D

didn't know you were getting so heavily into solitaire these days. :p

HEY!!!!

I can run Commander Keen!!!!

Im planning on giving Doom3 and HL2 a run on this machine! I know I can do 1024x768@ 32-bit and 60hz... Well that is what my math tells me :D

I would give 85Hz a shot, but my monitor wont do 85Hz :( max of 75 :(

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Im planning on giving Doom3 and HL2 a run on this machine! I know I can do 1024x768@ 32-bit and 60hz... Well that is what my math tells me :D

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hate to see those SAT scores. :p commander keen, lol.

you could probably run up to about maybe Quake 2 on there, though. :D i actually really like those awe64 sound cards, too (oh, you have awe32 :p )

actually, I have a box about that calibur, exept it is a little better:

200Mhz Pentium, 128mb dram (the simms), but I can;t find a disk old enough for it.

My P200 MMX hangs from my key chain now :(

did it die, or you just don;t like it? if you have the time you could set it up as a router or something.

It was dead prior to surgery :)

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Originally posted by Handyman
It was dead prior to surgery :)

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cool


yeah, actually I am currently thinking of getting this P2 266 box up and running. I alreeady run gentoo on my mainbox, so I think im just going to put windows on this one (probably 2k). I am going to add my 40 120gxp (limited to 32gb) to it and another 128 megs of ram. It would be a fine box just for web browsing and remote ssh sessions. There are a good number of programs that work well only in windows (or only exist in windows) so I don;t want to not take advantage of that either.


I'd need a new case (old one is like, really horrible, I don't want to touch it, give you cuts, and it is a freaking eye sore), some more ram (each 128 stick is like 20 bucks or so), and that is all. Anyoen think this is worth putting anything into? I mean it still works, why not upgrade it s a little and use it for stuff.