My ghetto box,,,,,,, or POS Linux Box Version 1.5
Just an update. I put Fedora Core 2 on, but it ran like ass. So I have ended up putting Damn Small linux on and will probably supplement it with Fluxbox, but I dont have the partitions right, and getting an article to explain WHAT they are, which would help me understand why I size them a certain way, would help. I have had people explain to me what THEY have done, but in order for me to stop asking such dumb questions, and really the way I work, is that I need to know WHY they are set up a certain way, and then that way I can grasp what needs to be done and more importantly then I can tweak it as I go.
I have it up and running, and for a 333MHz Pentium II computer with very little memory, it seems to function well. And when I saw very little I mean it, I think 64MB total, as the memory that had been put in was 100MHz and was making linux panic when i first did my install of Core 2.
I am now even more curious about kernels and how Linux is set up as opposed to Windows. The way it was explained to me is that linux doesn't install ( I am trying to remember the conversation, dont jump on my shit)in the kernel, but "around" it? I dont know, I am second semester Computer Science, so alot of this goes over my head although considering how much I, and my fellow Live journal friends, taught me this week alone it wont be long before I understand it at least to the point that my eyes dont glaze over when I read technical data on it. I am now more of a believer in Linux than I was when I went to my first L.U.G B/c for a POS box like this to run as smoothly as it does, it really doesn't make sense that windows hog as much resources as they do, though that is what I found with Core 2 on this ghetto box.
I currently have Mandrake 10 downloaded to maybe put on my other box, but I am thinking slackware. But the install and technical part of slackware is a few days of reading ahead of me. The amount I have learned in the past week blows me away.
Now that I am bit, I need to figure out what this whole world of Linux has to offer.
I have it up and running, and for a 333MHz Pentium II computer with very little memory, it seems to function well. And when I saw very little I mean it, I think 64MB total, as the memory that had been put in was 100MHz and was making linux panic when i first did my install of Core 2.
I am now even more curious about kernels and how Linux is set up as opposed to Windows. The way it was explained to me is that linux doesn't install ( I am trying to remember the conversation, dont jump on my shit)in the kernel, but "around" it? I dont know, I am second semester Computer Science, so alot of this goes over my head although considering how much I, and my fellow Live journal friends, taught me this week alone it wont be long before I understand it at least to the point that my eyes dont glaze over when I read technical data on it. I am now more of a believer in Linux than I was when I went to my first L.U.G B/c for a POS box like this to run as smoothly as it does, it really doesn't make sense that windows hog as much resources as they do, though that is what I found with Core 2 on this ghetto box.
I currently have Mandrake 10 downloaded to maybe put on my other box, but I am thinking slackware. But the install and technical part of slackware is a few days of reading ahead of me. The amount I have learned in the past week blows me away.
Now that I am bit, I need to figure out what this whole world of Linux has to offer.
