On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:28:26 -0500 Lamar Owen lowen@pari.edu wrote:
On Friday, January 21, 2011 01:29:14 pm John R Pierce wrote:
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo ... model name : Pentium III (Katmai) cpu MHz : 451.031 ...
I have a few K6-2 300 systems here that would be ideal for a few uses if I could get something a little more modern than the i586 C4 build running on them... for that matter, perhaps I need the i586 C4 build on them.... They are Agilent ATMProbes that had a custom dual OC12 card complex, with the K6-2 board, which is not PC form-factor compliant, acting as a controller for the specialized atm cell capture/analysis complex.
I have an old amd k6 (600 I think?) which currently just barely runs Mint 9 LXDE. I made the mistake of letting it update grub and a kernel and one or the other of those updates made it decide to reboot as soon as it should have brought up the grub menu, so I had to re-install it. Now the only thing I'll let through for an update is if it's cups or related to cups.
It previously had Vector Linux on it for a very short time, but since that uses lilo and is based on slackware, I decided to use Mint 9 lxde instead since it booted it o.k. I had enough issues getting a handle on grub. Before that it had Win98 on it.
I rarely turn it on, I thought I'd give it a spin as a print server for my very old Panasonic dot matrix printer, since it has a parallel port. But it is really slow. I have a PIII 500mhz laptop running Fedora 12 (gnome-openbox) that's faster. fwiw.