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dave@burn-it.co.uk 11-15-2017 05:47 AM

And???

rvijay 11-15-2017 08:21 AM

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Originally Posted by dave@burn-it.co.uk (Post 5780892)
And???

Normally in the past, if I shut down PC for entire net I got at least one week
without the crash. But the situation has changed recently quite a bit with the rescue pigeon that I have:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...539/page4.html

So lots more feathers and dust easily explains this fast crash. From this point
on, it will only get worse, just have to live with it.

rvijay 11-16-2017 08:22 AM

Trash to Gaming PC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x01tRZu38Ac

rvijay 11-22-2017 12:32 AM

Very retro looking distro:
http://www.readylinux.com/

rvijay 11-22-2017 12:56 AM

http://www.daphile.com/ - Interesting OS for audio

rvijay 11-24-2017 12:47 PM

FREE E-Book: 1001 Ways to Make Money
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56006

This ebook above got me thinking, have you made money with old computers and IT stuffs ? How ? I haven't directly made money but used old computer to learn useful life hacks on the net.

ondoho 11-25-2017 03:36 AM

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Originally Posted by rvijay (Post 5784720)
have you made money with old computers and IT stuffs

for me it's normal to both buy and sell used hardware.

i don't consider it as "making money", more as re-joining the flow, plus: an investment is always partly funded by a previous sale, and is likely to return at least part of what was invested.

i usually sell cheap enough to lose a little. that's ok because i do want to get rid of it.
not so cheap though to be taken for a sap (because some think i'm gullible and start making ridiculously low offers).

rvijay 11-25-2017 01:33 PM

A contact of mine is throwing away over 15 older PCs, they cost lots of power, add to clutter, occupy valuable space and he has no more time for them. Guess sooner or later that time will come for an older PC to part ways.

rvijay 11-29-2017 09:44 AM

Sharp MZ80B - an introduction of an old Z80 computers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vz-ZzQ2dEQ

rvijay 12-04-2017 07:13 AM

Janus Linux had no GUI and for 64 bit systems is only 14Mb:
https://protonesso.github.io/janus/
https://github.com/protonesso/janus
This user has made 840 or so contributions in the last year,
very impressive:
https://github.com/protonesso

Wish Janus Linux was available for 32 bit systems also.

Best Wishes to Janus Linux.

rvijay 12-10-2017 09:01 AM

Very nice Manjaro review:
http://www.linuxandubuntu.com/home/m...-linux-distros

Yesterday I got Xenile Puppy 32 bit, the latest. Will try it later on in future sometime.

https://www.diffen.com/difference/32-bit_vs_64-bit

The site above is excellent to understand the differences between 32 bit and 64 bit. If one is into high end video, gaming, number crunching and needs special more security than 64 Bit is good. However, for most apps. etc., that I use at a personal level 32 bit is actually more than enough. The drawback being that in future lesser and poor support for 32 bit. One way around this might be perhaps to learn Linux From Scratch and make a custom 32 bit distro as needed. Hope I don't go this path but never know what the future holds. I very rarely see images am mostly happy with text, audio for this 32 bit is actually more than enough. Video skips a lot for youtube, normal video is ok when needed.

I already have a 64 bit PC, so the transition may not be that hard.

On a different note, retro PCs like the P2 etc., are going for a good sum on ebay. This is something to consider before throwing an older PC out first.

hazel 12-10-2017 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by rvijay (Post 5791435)
The drawback being that in future lesser and poor support for 32 bit. One way around this might be perhaps to learn Linux From Scratch and make a custom 32 bit distro as needed. Hope I don't go this path but never know what the future holds.
.......
I already have a 64 bit PC, so the transition may not be that hard.

You build a lot of LFS in chroot, and you can't chroot from a 64-bit system to a 32-bit one. There are of course ways around this. You can work from a CD, DVD or pen drive with a suitable 32-bit distro on it, rather than from a distro on your hard drive. Alternatively, you can build a 32-bit CLFS system and set your bootloader to boot it.

rvijay 12-10-2017 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by hazel (Post 5791454)
You build a lot of LFS in chroot, and you can't chroot from a 64-bit system to a 32-bit one. There are of course ways around this. You can work from a CD, DVD or pen drive with a suitable 32-bit distro on it, rather than from a distro on your hard drive. Alternatively, you can build a 32-bit CLFS system and set your bootloader to boot it.

Since I have a few 32 bit systems already, perhaps I use one of them to build a more updated LFS system. It is awful to see the end of 32 bit systems.

In future the 32 bit systems will be like these it seems:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD87tUYwOfo

This might seem very unrelated but there might be some creepy stuffs in old computers so helps to be careful. Minimum it can be bugs and if you bring it
home and just keep it around, your entire apartment/home or even building may get infested.

ondoho 12-10-2017 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by rvijay (Post 5791487)
It is awful to see the end of 32 bit systems.

you are being very, very apocalyptic here. victimizing yourself for no reason.

first: this statement is only partly correct.
second: it is going to take many, many years, i'd say decades, before people do not use any 32bit home computers anymore and they're'll be no linuxes for that either.

rvijay 12-10-2017 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by ondoho (Post 5791534)
you are being very, very apocalyptic here. victimizing yourself for no reason.

first: this statement is only partly correct.
second: it is going to take many, many years, i'd say decades, before people do not use any 32bit home computers anymore and they're'll be no linuxes for that either.

See, the thing is folks always prefer better. Even the early C2D PCs are being discarded by some folks. They were on sale used for 50 bucks locally around 2 years ago or so. Hence, at these very low prices, folks are moving away from 32 bit PCs.


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