On 2008-04-24, Douglas Mayne <doug@localhost.localnet> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:18:50 -0500, Longfellow wrote:
>
>> ... or is it a tectonic shift? The wife is now more sensitive to her
>> computer performance than am I! So now we go hunting for new hardware.
>>
>> But all that is negotiable. What is not is that it run Slackware 12.x.
>> Ergo, that is the benchmark, and why I'm mentioning it here: What are
>> you guys using for hardware? What is the most rock solid reasonably
>> performing system (actually, components, I suppose) that Slackers have
>> found?
>>
>> Understand that the wife is running my old Tomcat 3 w/ 133MHz Pentium,
>
> Do you mean an original, P5 pentium at 133 MHz? If so, you may be
> interested in the upgrades listed below.

Yep. Now to be retired to duty as a mail server or the like under
FreeBSD (or the like). It's now a teen-ager and behaves itself
remarkably well for its age... quality does show, dontchaknow... );

<snip>
> Assuming you don't want virtualization, then this is a lot of bang for the
> buck (YMMV):
>
> MB: Gigabyte GA-945GCM-S2C
> CPU: Pentium Dual Core E2180
> Memory: 2G
> Video: (on board) *
> LAN: (on board)
> HD: (250-500G SATA)
> Optical: 20x DVD-RW SATA
> Power Supply: 350W is adequate

I'll check this out. Thanks!

<snip>
> This is very usable system for working with the web, open office, etc. I
> don't think you will be running any of that software with a P5 @ 133MHz.

She doesn't think so either, and all she does is email, the WWW, and
some games! It worked great with W95 when that was the most power
available (199x?). Ah yes, W95, my last experience with that sort of
thing...

> * Caveat: with some motherboards with recent intel chipsets, such as
> i945gc, make sure you get the most recent X. Probably, wait for Slackware
> 12.1, or use slackware -current.

This is good to know, and is exactly the kind of info I want.

Thanks for this response!

Longfellow