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Nothing to scoff at: Arch Linux, 300Mhz Celeron
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| Arch Linux makes it acceptably light and fast,
| and with the addition of a very lightweight
| desktop, itâs a working-class computer. As you
| can see I added the old ath5k-based PCMCIA
| wireless card, which gives it decent download
| speeds, and the entire graphical desktop, plus
| nfs and ssh can all run in under 30Mb of
| memory with a little swap used. Triggering
| rtorrent and screen-vs over ssh takes care of
| the actual âwork,â and all the rest is cake.
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http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/nothing-to-scoff-at-arch-linux-300mhz-celeron/
A pleasant surprise: VortexBox
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| As a test for my new torrent slave, I
| downloaded an ISO of VortexBox, which is
| something I hadnât ever heard of, probably
| because I donât travel in Fedora circles very
| much. I had no rationale for grabbing that
| torrent; it just happened to be at the top of
| the stack at linuxtracker.org.
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http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/a-pleasant-surprise-vortexbox/
Recent:
Should I give my old PC to a charity or school, or reuse it?
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| My wife recently finished her MA (analysis
| of audio data, thesis writing, etc) using
| an eight-year old Toshiba Portege running
| Crunchbang Linux. It starts faster than any
| of her colleagues' modern laptops (about a
| third of the time, with no virus check to
| make the first 30 minutes virtually
| useless), connects better to the wireless
| network at the university â
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/14/old-computer-you-decide
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