Mathieu Baudier wrote:
break out your wallet, blow the dust out, and spend a few bucks on some
RAM
Sometimes the hardware is so old, that it is not as easy as that to find
the right RAM for it...
I have some very old IBM PoS cashier machines (sic! got them for 30 EUR
each, plenty of connectors, very well built) based on Celeron processors which valiantly run CentOS 5 for some tests/router/storage, etc., but I have a hard time finding RAM for them.
I think that they will never make it to CentOS 6 (maybe I'll switch them
to Debian which I always found pretty good for low-end hardware).
I've always been impressed with how solid IBM's hardware is. Anyway, one thing you might look at is to see what's running, and if you don't need it, turn it off, and maybe uninstall. If these are PoS boxen, do you need X windows? Do you need Gnome or KDE as windonw managers (look at smaller ones - I use IceWM at home, < 600k, yes, k, not M; the other admin here likes xfce)?
mark
it, turn it off, and maybe uninstall. If these are PoS boxen, do you need X windows? Do you need Gnome or KDE as windonw managers (look at smaller ones - I use IceWM at home, < 600k, yes, k, not M; the other admin here likes xfce)?
I have the CentOS Extras XFCE on one of them (for which I could actually get the right additional RAM), but most just run headless (and were installed with the text installer).
I don't use them as cashier machines, just got them second hand. They were so cheap that I bought one just to try, and then found it so good that I bought the other three... (I'm probably not the only one on this list who has computers all over the place, and a wife who gave up asking when you come up with a "new" one)
Mathieu Baudier wrote: <snip>
I don't use them as cashier machines, just got them second hand. They were so cheap that I bought one just to try, and then found it so good that I bought the other three... (I'm probably not the only one on this list who has computers all over the place, and a wife who gave up asking when you come up with a "new" one)
*chortle* I've got a friend who must have a dozen, including one or two RISC 6000's, and of *course* his MicroVAX.
mark
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