ten buck fedora

General Schvantzkoph

The previously mentioned lack of any software except what's on the hard drive is most of the reason. I'm also in no financial condition to get a Net hook up for this beast until I get a job, which would then make me better off to simply replace it entirely. It turns out to be ready to be used as a planter: 200 MHz clock, 1-8th GByte RAM, 16 GByte HD, VGA monitor, etc. Sigh. At USD $10, I'm pretty sure I paid too much for it. I wonder if you can just replace the motherboard in something this primitive and find the result useful.

Thanks for the advice anyway, I'll be muttering in the comp.os.linux.advocacy group to see "whose Linux is the best good deal these days" before I commit to Fedora or any other choice. I last sysadmined and very modestly helped redesign the kernel of mostly, I ran sodas and pizza and set up the meeting room for the very smart people doing the real work while I watched amazed FreeBSD, and I'm quite enamoured of it as far as I took it it was the embedded OS of the IBM-Whistle "Interjet I" "Network Appliance", an idea whose time never really came, on which I was for a while a systems software developer.

Point taken, just inconvenient right at the moment.

Well, except I think I want it about 15-fold faster and with 16-fold more RAM and 18-fold more HD space. The replacement for this $10 computer will run around $4000, or about 83 hours pay at my last pay scale, I suspect; I'm a graphics freak, and we tend to stress hardware pretty heavily.

The setup isn't hard, I've done that lots of times; it's the setup that makes a silk purse out of this sow's ear that is at best a fantasy.

Still, it will be good enough to run something like Open Office, I'm sure; finger speed operations don't need much horsepower or space.

I just want to do NP-Hard problem heuristic solutions with it, which eats clock cycles insatiably.

shows my efforts thus far.

Thanks again.

xanthian.