My brand new (nearly ) Toshiba m100 lappy runs slackware 11, as does my 7 year old desktop (Athlon 1,33 GHz, 384 MB RAM, 20 GB HD)

lol and i thought i would be a proud owner of a pc that 'doesn't fire on all cylinders' (taken from cartoon 'cars')..
i have a pII@350MHz, with 64Mb of RAM (don't ask me for its freq - it was not of any importance back then). running slack 10.2 on it.. - i learned the basics of unix as an OS and now about 1 year later from my initial contact with linux, im buying a brand new pc to set up as file and internet and firewall server and hopefully keep it as such for a lifetime if possible
the new pc is core 2 duo, 2GB of DDR2 ram, 1x40GB for OS, 3x 320GB in RAID5 for storage, with slack11 installed.. thats all the good stuff folks...
plan is to move out of windows in the near future both for the sake of the 'new' and for the sake of stop being illegal hehe

Hi,

I have:

1º PIII 450, 256Mb Ram, 13GB hard drive running slackware 11 and fluxbox as my window manager.

2º PIV 2.4, 1Gb Ram, 200Gb hard drive running slackware 11 with kde.

Can't really tell i old are they, since i forgot the dates.

Until recently, I ran slack on an AMD Duron 750MHz with 512MB SDRAM, with a a 20GB primary drive, and a 160GB slave. I bought that second hand in 2001 for £350, so it was probably a year or two old then.

Having just stopped being a student and started working for a living, I treated myself to an IBM Thinkpad T40 from ebay. It's a 1.5GHz Pentium-M 512MB DDR, 40 GB hard drive little beast. I should think it's also a few years old (2? 3? does anyone know when these came out?)

In terms of speed, I have to confess, there's not an enormous difference, especially as I was running flux on the Duron, but it's a bit nicer having a laptop compared to a desktop, especially as my room is now smaller!

I have a Pentium I 200MHz with 128MB SDRAM and a 10GB hard drive kicking around at home which I one day plan to turn into a router, or maybe a file server for my mum - it will, of course, run slack!

Hi all,

Thanks for the responses. It's neat to see that the distribution is skewing toward older computers.

Regards,

-Drew

I am a relatively new comer to the slackware world. Started with 10.0.
Here's a list of my machines,

Webserver - About 5 years old 1.8 GHz P4 768MB RAM. Works like a charm as my webserver.

Personal desktop - About 1.5 year old Athlon64 X2 4200+ 2.2GHz 1GB RAM. Personal desktop with 3 discs, one for WinXP, one for various Linux distro and the third one for data.

MythTV box - About 1 year old Athlon64 3700+ 2GHz 1GB RAM. Works as my mythbox connected to TV.

I got 2 machines. One is about 3 years old. It's a p4 prescott with a gig and a 1/2 terabyte of storage. the other is just a 750 duron with maybe 256 or 512 ram. Both run slack very nicely except the machine with my ati card in it for any kind of hardware accel.

i think the results may be a bit skewed here...

1) people w/old computers are more likely to run slack because the 'doitforyou' distros are too slow on older HW and the 'compileityourself' distros take too long to 'emerge' on old computers...

I don't think that's skewness, I think that's just the result you'd expect given the audience

I'll second that.

Mine is a (around) 7years old 1.6XP. Still perfect and enough...

pwc101 - My work Thinkpad is a T40 with those specs. I got it in October 2003, so yours should be in the 3-4 year category.

I recently retired an IBM A20m that was running Fluxbox on Slackware 10.2. It's a Celeron 500MHz with 256MB of RAM, 12GB HDD. It was a decent always-on internet/email terminal. I finally shut it down with over 400 days of uptime. I replaced it after I got tired of waiting on webpages to render in Firefox.

The new laptop is an HP Compaq nx6110 that's a year old. It's a Pentium M 1.73MHz with 512MB RAM and a 40GB HDD. Slackware 11 runs very nicely on it.

My desktop is a home built Athlon XP 2500+ overclocked to 2.2Ghz. It used to be my Windows XP gaming machine until I swapped a bigger hard drive in, and you know - just never got around to reinstalling Windows. Over a year later and I haven't missed it. It's got 1GB of RAM and an nVidia 5900XT, so it's got my Linux game installs on it (Neverwinter Nights mainly). I haven't upgraded to Slackware 11 from 10.2 on that one.

on is 1-2 years (laptop)
the other i think its 5 years (home server)
both on slack 11

A lot of "newbies" boxes, if I may.

80486 (purchased back in 1993)
100MHz
16MB RAM
850MB HHD
graphics: I've NO clue

But to be really honest it runs more or lest just the kernel. NO X, nothing! Only a few libraries, g++, perl, and pythom and least but not least, my favorite vim are on this HHD.
The common "hello world" program needs a couple of minutes to compile (ok, maybe more than 5min).
It was just a bet with myself, to get this fossile running.
Obviously I could have chosen a lighter distro, like dsl (I had trouble getting dsl installed) but I didn't care. I haven't worked on this box for ages, so... who cares!?! Maybe one day (when I am much more advanced in Linux), I could try something more appropriate.
By the way: tips and tricks are welcome!

Heh, that's why I like Slackware on my Plll 800 IBM. I ran FreeBSD 6.2 for quite awhile, but, got tired of the long compiling times. I compiled KDE 3.5.6 from source in FreeBSD and it took several days on that unit. Sackware is perfect for my older hardware.