[geeks] sunday project

[Koyote]

I'd suggest freebsd,  maybe.

I've built a gentoo system (binary method) on a p2/266 and it's not
zippy, but it's fine if you have other things to do (like researching
compile tweaks, reading docco, playing with kids) during the long bits.


I'm currently using a p2/300 with 256MB ram and dual video (ATI rage pro
agp and allinwonder98 PCI) as the cd-burning, home stereo, dual head
"entertainment center" (I admit we play dvds on a dvd player and pipe it
in through svideo) and it handles movies full screen on the left (20
inch) head just fine. windowmaker, xinerama, xmms, xawtv, etc.

it also runs one printer as print server.

it is a bit slow ripping to mp3/ogg, but hey- it's a pii/300 






James <james at jdfogg.com> writes:

> I am rebuilding my wife's desktop PC that she no longer uses since I
> gave her a laptop. So far I have found:
> 3 lbs of dust
> dead PS fan (lubed and turns but will die again)
> dead CPU fan (lubed and turns like new)
> 32M dram (have 256 to install)
> 56k modem (removed, broadband internet to the rescue)
> 16 bit sound blaster
> Intel 10/100 lan card
> 300Mhz Celery-Onion CPU
> 24X cdrom
> 6 gig IDE disk
> ATI Rage-2 AGP video
> 17 in CTX monitor (not bad actually, clean/straight picture)
> 
> I have an Intel CPU that I grabbed from a dead dual CPU box at
> work. It is the same socket style as the celery-onion. I was hoping
> that it was something on the order of 450Mhz. It's a 266 PII. Drat. It
> might be slightly zippier than the celery-onion because of its cache,
> but the celery-onion is a 300-A (with cache) so I think I'll leave
> things alone.
> 
> I'm thinking that with the ram boost and installing Linux it should
> run ok. With Win98se and 32M it was a tad slow (lots of swappage and
> disk thrashing).
> 
> If someone has a use for the 266 cpu they can have it, otherwise I
> will scrap the fan from the enclosure and replace mine.
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