Linux Works (And Shines) On ANY Computer

[Hal Duston]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 04:06:09AM -0500, Billy Crook wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 23:25, Hal Duston <hald at kc.rr.com> wrote:
> > I'm pretty sure that NASCAR doesn't have ABS, power steering, radio, etc.
> > I'm also pretty sure they run, and drive.
> 
> I don't know any NASCAR drivers personally, but I doubt they'd even
> actually want to drive their race cars to work every day and run
> errands, and do normal people things.  I googled it, and they do have
> power steering, and more radio communications equipment than most
> consumer cars.  ABS is forbidden by regulation, which almost sounds
> like they want to have crashes...

charon is also a specialized computer that I don't use for every day work.

> > Granted this isn't a 200mhz Pentium Pro (it's older and slower), but
> > it does what I need.
> >
> > root at charon:~# uname -a
> > Linux charon 2.6.23.9 #1 Tue Dec 4 17:23:50 CST 2007 i586 Pentium 75 - 200 GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
> 
> That's nice.  I especially like that ram count.  Here's mine:
> [bcrook at Zero ~]$ free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:       4065004    4035912      29092          0      19576    2597740
> -/+ buffers/cache:    1418596    2646408
> Swap:      2031608          0    2031608
> [bcrook at Zero ~]$ ps aux | wc -l
> 332
> [bcrook at Zero ~]$ netstat -tuan | wc -l
> 226
> 
> iostat:
> avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
>           24.77    0.00    3.91    3.31    0.00   68.00
> 
> You must not ever edit home movies, photos, or use openoffice, or
> firefox, or flash player, or pidgin, or compiz I take it.  You're just
> a special guy then.  Because everyone else wants a more engaging
> experience.  I use GNU screen, and vim and bash every day.  They're
> great, but they don't pass the 'mom test'.  I'm interested to know
> what "desktop environment" you use, of if you use X11 at all.  Screen
> resolution?

Gnome, generally, but yes, I was the last one to go X11,  you can ask
any of the other "oldtimers" and they'll confirm that.

[root at pxe-client ~]# xdpyinfo |fgrep dimensions
  dimensions:    1600x1200 pixels (342x256 millimeters)
[root at pxe-client ~]#

That work for you?  When I have to choose between eating and
computing, it isn't a decision I have to think about.  This
machine was also the subject of a curbside discount.

Thanks,
--
Hal