I’ve been distro shopping lately. I had become complacent while working with PCLinuxOS because everything just works when using it. With nothing broken, I had nothing to fix This is a good thing, unless you want things to break every once in a while so you can learn to fix them. I know, I’m a glutton for punishment.
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Slackware and Zenwalk
I’ve been distro shopping lately. I had become complacent while working with PCLinuxOS because everything just works when using it. With nothing broken, I had nothing to fix This is a good thing, unless you want things to break every once in a while so you can learn to fix them. I know, I’m a glutton for punishment.
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The PII 350 MHz Computer Dies?!
I always hate to send hardware off to that big chipyard in the sky. However, the PII 350 MHz PC decided to give up on me. Perhaps that is why I was getting so many errors while attempting to install various distros of Linux (including those optimized for old PCs). So, for those of you that were following along with my little journey, the P [...]
350 MHz XFCE Desktop Search Continues
I realized last night that I wasn’t going to get a day where I could just hammer out all of the distros I wanted to check out with my old PII 350 MHz. So, I figured I’d give STX Linux 1.0 a try. This distro comes heavily recommended for old PCs as we can see from the Stx website: “STX Linux is a desktop Linux distribution es [...]
Slackware 10.2 Tips and Tricks
Want to Install the 2.6.13 Kernel is Slack but don’t know how? Ask and ye shall receive!
First, mount the CDROM…in my case, it is /dev/hdb
mount -t auto /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom
or
mount -t auto /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
Next, let’s install that Kernel! Insert Slackware Disc 2…then issue the commands below.
installpkg /mnt/cdr [...]
Slackware 10.2 + 350Mhz PII = Bliss
Slackware 10.2 came out a few days ago and I’ve recently decided to dust off a Pentium II 350 with 524MB PC100 RAM to see how things work with it. All I can say is WOW! I have resurrected this old computer to a new life. Slackware was where I started and I can assure you it will be a staple of my Linux diet for years to come. Despit [...]