On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 03:49:17PM -0500, Michael Langley wrote: > > OK, here's the deal. Whenever I tell somebody that I use blackbox they > inevitably assume that I use it because I have to. People seem to think > that because I run a minimal wm without Gnome or KDE that I'm > running an old PII with 128mb RAM or something similarly crappy. This > is simply not the case. > > So I'm wondering what kind of hardware the average blackbox user is > running on. Think of this as a sort of poll for the list. I don't know > how many people actively monitor this list but if you are reading this > please do respond. This information is only to satisfy my own curiosity > and probably yours as well if you are still reading this. > > > CPU: Athlon XP 2100+ @1734 MHz > RAM: 1 Gig (2x512mb) Dual Channel Mode > VID: Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 Ultra >
I think I'm going to "win" with the oldest/slowest system given all the responses I've seen: CPU: 200 MHz Pentium MMX RAM: 192 M VID: S3 Virge (4 Meg) I put this machine together back in 1997 or so, and it initially ran RedHat 5.0. It now runs Debian, and even though this box is a dinosaur by any standard it still works well enough for me to use. Blackbox works exceptionally well on this machine. I also have a SparcStation20 running Debian that will run Blackbox once a few problems getting X working are resolved. That machine is a dual processor box - each processor a whopping 50 MHz - with 512 M memory. The current 2.6 kernels do not run in SMP mode on 32-bit sparc unfortunately; the older 2.4 kernels did. Art Haas -- Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. -Thomas Jefferson to James Smith, 1822 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://asgardsrealm.net/lurker/splash/index.html
