On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Robert L Cochran<cochranb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > My advice to you is to give the Pentium III box to a charity, and get > yourself a new quad core Intel machine. Why Intel? I prefer to support the underdog. Plus, AMD Opteron is better. ;-) I didn't say that was my only machine. It's an old machine I keep plugged on the home LAN (not powered on, luckily) and boot OS/2 from time to time, for no reason other than updating Firefox and the like (yes, there's 32-bit OS/2 builds for it ;-), and remembering about the good old times when IBM had a clue, and a spine. > Load it up with memory and start > playing with virtualization. A new machine lets your work with all the new > technologies that are coming out and you will be able to do so much more, if > in fact you choose to do so. Thanks for the advice. But I already have a dozen Virtualbox VMs in my Dual-Core Opteron with 2 gigs of ram which runs Fedora 11. My main question, which has been answered already, was if a PIII would run a recent Linux with some decent performance to make it usable. > Note that I'm not saying that you will do a > whole lot more. But the potential is definitely there for you with a new > machine. There is absolutely no technical reason today or a year from now to > stick with an old machine. Get the new stuff and you won't be sorry. I'm not sure a charity would do much with a Pentium III if then they want to check out a Youtube video and find out the hardware is underpowered to play a MPEG4 video. I'd rather give a 9-inch Asus EEE to a charity. or a check for $200 so they can buy one. (No wait, I'd rather send them the machine). (But then, I don't believe in charities, generally speaking. Maybe a school board from a school board I can walk to, but certainly not anything bigger than that.) I kinda liked what someone mentioned here about keeping it as a working spare, with a recent linux. It might be handy to have around in the event I mess my main system, or need to mess with partitions on a disk from a live system, or... In any case, thanks for your reply, and everyone else's. I don't want to drag this thread too long. :) FC -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
