On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 22:28 -0800, M. Edward Borasky wrote: > > Silicon Graphics Indy > > CPU: MIPS R4600 SC 133MHz A low end machine by SGI standards > > RAM: 256MB 72-pin ECC That's the maximum for an Indy > > HDD: 9GB IBM SCSI > > OS: Gentoo 1.4.16, compiled for MIPS-III > > Let me ask a potentially politically incorrect question. How many other > distros are there that will even run on this box? Is Gentoo the only > Linux hope for a 133 MHz MIPS? How well would a full-blown or even > partial KDE run on it?
Gentoo would run fine on a 133MHz MIPS. Remember that MHz means nothing for the speed of a CPU except when comparing identical cores. Just like how a 133MHz Pentium is different than a 133MHz 486 (yes, AMD made them), a 133MHz MIPS will be different. There really is no comparison, as tons of differences exist in instruction sets, pipelines, caches, IPC, etc. > I have a 133 MHz Pentium MMX, admittedly with only 32 MB of RAM. I just > barely got Debian Woody to run in it, and KDE (2.something!) was a > stretch. It would come up, but it wasn't very responsive. I ended up > going to the Enlightenment desktop on it. Funny thing is, this machine > (Libretto 70CT, actually) did a very good job with Windows 95, and I've > heard of folks successfully running NT 4.0 on them. Your machine has no reference to this one. A 133MHz MIPS machine is actually quite common and runs Linux pretty well. > When is it time to take these old things out behind the barn and shoot > them? When they quit working, I would assume. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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