On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 01:40:11PM -0700, Leo Mauler wrote: -- snip --
I have a very old Pentium I laptop still running that same "10-year-old OS", namely Slackware 7.1. The laptop won't run anything better as it only has a floppy drive and no CD drive (not even a USB port). What the laptop does do is manage all my recipes in my kitchen, and allows me to write essays or thoughts, or play simple games, while the bread is rising or the water is getting ready to boil. An old wired Ethernet card does a nice job of connecting me to the basement server and very basic Internet connectivity. Fact is that I wouldn't want to risk a $1000+ laptop right next to the stove, and don't have the space for a bulky tower case and monitor.
Sometimes older is a *better choice* than newer.
Just as an additional data point:
root@charon:~# cat /etc/slackware-version Slackware 12.1.0 root@charon:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 5 model : 2 model name : Pentium 75 - 200 stepping : 5 cpu MHz : 100.296 cache size : 0 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 bogomips : 203.30 clflush size : 32
root@charon:~# cat /etc/slackware-version Slackware 12.1.0 root@charon:~# uname -a Linux charon 2.6.23.9 #1 Tue Dec 4 17:23:50 CST 2007 i586 Pentium 75 - 200 GenuineIntel GNU/Linux root@charon:~# cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name
3 0 418035 hda 3 1 386849 hda1 3 2 31155 hda2 root@charon:~# free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 11848 11076 772 0 3008 3000 -/+ buffers/cache: 5068 6780 Swap: 31144 1224 29920 root@charon:~# ps faux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun12 0:00 [kthreadd] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun12 0:36 _ [ksoftirqd/0] root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun12 0:20 _ [events/0] root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun12 0:00 _ [khelper] root 48 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun12 0:06 _ [kblockd/0] root 55 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun12 0:00 _ [ata/0] root 56 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun12 0:00 _ [ata_aux] root 57 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun12 0:00 _ [ksuspend_usbd] root 63 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun12 0:00 _ [khubd] root 66 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun12 0:00 _ [kseriod] root 97 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jun12 0:00 _ [pdflush] root 98 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jun12 1:59 _ [pdflush] root 99 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun12 0:22 _ [kswapd0] root 152 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun12 0:00 _ [aio/0] root 818 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun12 0:00 _ [scsi_tgtd/0] root 857 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun12 0:00 _ [kcryptd/0] root 885 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun12 0:32 _ [kjournald] root 1715 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jul14 0:05 _ [rpciod/0] root 1737 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jul17 0:00 _ [lockd] root 1 0.0 0.7 772 88 ? Ss Jun12 10:55 init [3] root 1002 0.0 4.5 1848 540 ? Ss Jun12 1:41 /usr/sbin/syslogd root 1007 0.0 3.2 1704 384 ? Ss Jun12 0:00 /usr/sbin/klogd -c 3 -x root 1039 1.0 3.1 1724 372 ? Ss Jun12 773:44 /sbin/dhcpcd -d -t 30 eth0 bin 1109 0.0 2.5 1804 308 ? Ss Jun12 0:00 /sbin/rpc.portmap nobody 1113 0.0 3.8 1872 460 ? Ss Jun12 0:00 /sbin/rpc.statd root 1651 0.0 4.5 3932 536 ? Ss Jun12 0:18 /usr/sbin/sshd root 1695 0.0 9.2 6516 1096 ? Ss Jul14 0:11 _ sshd: root@pts/0 root 1697 0.0 12.4 3124 1472 pts/0 Ss Jul14 0:08 _ -bash root 7396 0.0 7.4 2560 888 pts/0 R+ 14:09 0:00 _ ps faux root 1671 0.0 3.6 1704 432 tty1 Ss+ Jun12 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux root@charon:~#
Thanks, -- Hal