Re: [CentOS] [OT] old kit and kaboodle, obFriday (was:Re: Is it okay?)

2011-01-24 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, January 21, 2011 10:36:00 pm Leonard den Ottolander wrote: The problem with many of these special purpose distros is that they are usually poorly maintained wrt updates. A minimal install of a mainstream distro like CentOS shouldn't take up much more than a GB, and if you put in

[CentOS] [OT] old kit and kaboodle, obFriday (was:Re: Is it okay?)

2011-01-21 Thread Lamar Owen
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 ... Being that it's Friday (note that this output isn't snipped; kernel 2.0.36 doesn't grab the CPU frequency apparently!):

Re: [CentOS] [OT] old kit and kaboodle, obFriday (was:Re: Is it okay?)

2011-01-21 Thread m . roth
Lamar Owen 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 ... Being that it's Friday (note that this output isn't snipped; kernel 2.0.36 doesn't grab the CPU frequency

Re: [CentOS] [OT] old kit and kaboodle, obFriday (was:Re: Is it okay?)

2011-01-21 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 02:38:28PM -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Lamar Owen 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 ... Being that it's Friday (note that

Re: [CentOS] [OT] old kit and kaboodle, obFriday (was:Re: Is it okay?)

2011-01-21 Thread Benjamin Smith
I would suggest Damn Small Linux. It seems taylor made for stuff like this. On Friday, January 21, 2011 11:28:26 am Lamar Owen 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

Re: [CentOS] [OT] old kit and kaboodle, obFriday (was:Re: Is it okay?)

2011-01-21 Thread Cia Watson
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:28:26 -0500 Lamar Owen lo...@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

Re: [CentOS] [OT] old kit and kaboodle, obFriday (was:Re: Is it okay?)

2011-01-21 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Benjamin, On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 14:35 -0800, Benjamin Smith wrote: I would suggest Damn Small Linux. It seems taylor made for stuff like this. The problem with many of these special purpose distros is that they are usually poorly maintained wrt updates. A minimal install of a mainstream