[wellylug] I think my motherboards gone.... :-(

Ian Sterling xyverz at gmail.com
Mon Dec 20 11:53:57 NZDT 2004


On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:40:33 +1300 (NZDT), David Antliff
<dave.antliff at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Ian Sterling wrote:
> > My thinkpad squeals whenever I try to do anything to it.  Poor Pentium
> > 200 machine being forced to actually do anything.  *sigh*  96mb RAM,
> > 2mb Video RAM, 4000rpm drive.  Debian/Fluxbox.  Poor thing is
> > mistreated so... ;)
> 
> I'm disappointed in you. Fluxbox isn't much of a load - you could at least
> ATTEMPT to abuse the thing properly and run KDE on it.

Yeah, been there, done that.  Spent the 15 minutes waiting for
everything to load.  Decided flux was better. ;)

But I can one-up that - XP runs on it.  Yes, I have first-hand
experience.  And with no CDROM drive available, it was interesting to
put on there, too.  Oh, can you say 3.5-hour install?  Yeah.  Suck.




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