"Market" for old macs?
Gordon JC Pearce
gordonjcp at gjcp.net
Wed Nov 30 05:14:59 CST 2005
Jim Leonard wrote:
> Obviously an older distro will work fine (I still have my Slackware 1.2
> around here somewhere). My point about being "useful" is that Pentium
> 133s are almost literally free (I see them curbside every month) and for
> "free" you can usually get all the way up to a 400MHz PII or 700 MHz
> PIII and those are much more useful.
I've got a PII-233 laptop that runs Slackware 10.2 quite happily. I
tend to use P133 as the lowest spec for running NAT, SAMBA and
Spamassassin on (with as much memory as they will take - Spamassassin is
written in Perl and is a memory guzzler) for people to share out their
broadband and keep a few common files on.
Gordon
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