Well, I think manosagn has got us all beat so far, but what self respecting geek would pass up a chance to boast hardware.

My oldest box is a Dell Optiplex GXa, P2 266 MHz, complete with "Designed for Windows 95" sticker, that does duty as router/firewall.

Closely following that is my frankenputer, a Celeron 300 MHz (that runs quite happily without a cpu fan). I keep it around for when I feel the urge to kick something.

Then there's the Toshiba Satellite laptop, AMD K6 that does duty as printer/scanner server.

There are several others, including a relatively new Compaq tower that I use for toying around with various distros, BSDs and Solaris, and my main squeeze, a Sager P4 3.2GHz HT laptop.

All running Slackware, naturally.

The thing is, all this older hardware plus stable, reliable Slackware means that these boxes will be around for quite a while longer.

yes, for S&G's I installed gentoo on my p3 and it took several days to build xorg, fluxbox, firefox. time to reinstall slack there...

++geeks (like me) can get freebie cast-offs from those who _have_ to have the latest and greatest from M$...

i love linux

1. Month-old, hand-built Pentium D 830 3.0GHz w/ ECS nForce 570 mobo (running XP Pro)
2. 4-yrs-old, Shuttle SK41G w/Athlon XP 2000+ (XP Pro)
3. 5-yrs-old, Hand-built Sempron 3000+ w/Soyo Dragon v2.0 (Slackware 11.0)
4. OLD as moonrocks, Dell Precision 410 dual proc 400MHz (FreeBSD 6.2)
5. OLD as moonrocks, Dell Precision 220 800MHz (NetBSD 3.0.1)
6. Dead but doesn't realize it yet, hand-built Pentium 200MMX (OpenBSD 3.8)
7. 4-yrs-old, Dell Inspiron 8500 (dual-booting XP Pro and Slackware 10.2)
8. 6-yrs-old, Toshiba Satellite 1805-S274 (running Backtrack v2.0)
9. 10-month-old, Apple MacBook 13" CoreDuo 2.0GHz
10. 5-yrs-old, Sharp Zaurus 5500

I have a Thinkpad (PII 300MHz) and a Duron 900 desktop (BIOS reports DuronXP 1200). The Duron should be seven by now, the other one even older. Both run Slack 11 just fine

I have a used Compaq Presario 1200US laptop (Intel 800MHz, 128MB Ram, 10 GHz HDD) with Slackware 11 running on it (BackTrack 2.2). I started dual booting with W2K, but within a month burned the box and reloaded with just BackTrack (I wasn't using windoze at all).

I've seen a couple of posts from people running Slackware 11 on 266MHz boxes! Now I'm thinking of taking my other Compaq laptop (a 1625), burning it and loading Slackware to it. A pity we have to rely on windoze at the job...

1-Siemens Amilo 1.7 GHz and 512MB ram about 2 years old running Slackware 11.0 with Dropline Gnome.
2-Toshiba Tecra S1 1.4 GHz and 1G ram about 4 years old running Slackware 11.0.

My second Slackware 11 (2.6.18) box is a Plll 800 IBM eServer with 384 MB RAM, it is running XFce4 and runs well indeed. It is 7 years old.

Hi all,

It's been neat to see how the curve has flattened out as more people have added their information.

The Older than 7 years category probably could have been split out into more categories.

In any event, when Pat Volkerding expresses concern for those using older hardware, he's apparently right on track.

Regards,

-Drew

Maybe there should be two versions ... one for old, one for new. Or, I guess it also may be possible to keep it all in one version, but maybe have two options: for old computers and for new.

From my reading of the "current" changelog, that seems to be what Pat is intending. The possibility that he's mentioned is that the next version of Slackware will only have the 2.6 kernel, but Slackware 11 will continue to be supported for a long time -- presumably for those running older hardware.

Regards,

-Drew

P.S. I wonder if he ever reads this forum.

From what I understand, no, he doesn't. I believe he was asked this (maybe I'm mistaken) when he once appeared in ##slackware on freenode.net.

From what I gather on http://www.slackware.com, his reference to these forums is for the Slackware users' benefit...I'm thinking that he knows the value of these forums, but there is no official forum. (in case you're hinting that he visits here because he lists linuxquestions.org on at slackware.com)

Hi Unixfool.

I'm not hinting at anything. I heard the interview with Pat Volkerding on The Linux Link Tech Show shortly after Slackware 11 was released. In that interview he states that this is pretty much the official support forum for Slackware. He goes into a little detail on how he spent time with Jeremy Garcia at a Linux conference and decided this is the place for user support.

I'm glad he did. This is a wonderful forum.

I just wondered if Pat trawled through here from time to time to see what we're all asking about.

Regards,

-Drew

That's great ... he knows what he's doing (as usual)

I have a ibm think pad 350 it's a 25Mhz 486SX with 16Mb ram 250 MB HDD running slack4.0
nobody who sees it run can beleve it's a 25Mhz machine for as old as it is it's still pretty livly

Now THAT's pretty amazing.

Do you have a network connection for it? What software do you run on it?

I really like what this guy did to his Gateway Handbook using Slackware 9.1! I'd love to do the same thing if I could find one.

Regards,

-Drew