From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.slackware
On 2024-12-17, Giovanni wrote:
I have five slackware machines in my small home network. they are all
old machines ...
are constantly used.
- an old 486DX with 330 MB disk 8 MB RAM and slackware 11.0
- an old 486DX4 with 1 GB disk 32 MB RAM for tape backups.
slackware 14.2
- an old Pentium III with 2 x 160 GB disks 384 MB RAM slackware 14.2
- an old AMD Sempron ... slackware 15.0
- a old Lenovo ThinkCentre i5-4570 used for most of daily services and
with 2 x 500 GB disks 16 GB RAM slackware 15.0 and dual boot with
Windows 10
... and here I thought that I had kept my 486 systems for about as long
was was reasonably possible (the last of them was replaced probably
about 10 years ago or so).
My own collection is too varied to list all the systems, but some
standouts include:
An Asus EeePC (701, "4G Surf", if I recall correctly) running
Slackware-13.37, using a permanently mounted SD card for additional
storage. The memory in that system has been upgraded to the 2GB
maximum that the machine can use. My weakest system, but also
physically the smallest. I need to think about how I might go
about putting a more recent version of Slackware on it, though.
It's not very useful as it is.
A Sony Vaio VPCW211AD mini notebook. Intel Atom CPU, 2GB RAM,
and 1TB WD Blue SA510 SSD. The system is not very powerful, but it
works well. Currently running Slackware-15.0, but I'm planning to
upgrade it to Slackware64, probably after 15.1 is released. Almost
as small as the EeePC, but with enough storage for a modern OS.
HP EliteBook 8470w, Intel Core i5, 8GB RAM, and a similar WD Blue
SA510 1TB SSD. A bit of a workhorse, given its portability.
This one gets used a lot more than was originally intended.
Running Slackware64-15.0.
My daily "desktop" system is a "Frankenputer" with an AMD FX-8350
eight-core processor, 32GB RAM, a 250GB main disk drive, and a 4-disk
700GB RAID-5 array on a RocketRAID 640L SATA-III RAID controller.
That's running Slackware64-14.2, though I of course want to update
it. It's just that updating your daily "wokstation" computer can
be so disruptive ...
I have another of the same hardware, with less disk space (and no
hardware RAID), that's used as a music workstation (Ardour and the
like), also on Slackware64-14.2. That system hasn't been up since
late spring, due to a relocation and a still-pending rebuild of the
music room.
There are others, with more mundane specifications, running
Slackware64-15.0, running mail/DNS/web services, home network gateway,
and such, and a couple of Arch-Linux systems managed by my ${SO}. ...
and still more waiting to have modern Slackware installed so they
can be returned to service.
Oh, and let's not forget (though it hasn't been powered on in
nearly 10 years, and probably will be a few more years before I
revive the project; that is *IF* I revive that project), the old
Compaq AlphaServer DS-10 that I had ported Slackware-10.2 to ...
I guess technically that was effectively "Slackware64", though I
don't believe that there *was* an official "Slackware64" at the time.
(Fred Emmott's Slamd64 project notwithstanding).
I don't think that I ever really consider it all that important what
the specs of any given system are. I just don't push any of them
anywhere near the limits of what they can do, though I probably
get pretty close to the limit with the HP EliteBook, which does
a lot, considering it was supposed to be the "garage computer" ...
The workstations (main and music) are overpowered for what they do, and
that's really how I want them. I do need to get the OS and software
up to date on both, though ... (probably why the HP notebook gets
used so much ...)
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