From: syl@therockgarden.ca   
      
   On 2024-12-17, Giovanni wrote:   
      
   > I have five slackware machines in my small home network. they are all   
   > old machines ...   
   > are constantly used.   
   > - an old 486DX with 330 MB disk 8 MB RAM and slackware 11.0   
   > - an old 486DX4 with 1 GB disk 32 MB RAM for tape backups.   
   >    slackware 14.2   
   > - an old Pentium III with 2 x 160 GB disks 384 MB RAM slackware 14.2   
   > - an old AMD Sempron ... slackware 15.0   
   > - a old Lenovo ThinkCentre i5-4570 used for most of daily services and   
   >    with 2 x 500 GB disks 16 GB RAM slackware 15.0 and dual boot with   
   >    Windows 10   
      
   ... and here I thought that I had kept my 486 systems for about as long   
   was was reasonably possible (the last of them was replaced probably   
   about 10 years ago or so).   
      
   My own collection is too varied to list all the systems, but some   
   standouts include:   
      
     An Asus EeePC (701, "4G Surf", if I recall correctly) running   
     Slackware-13.37, using a permanently mounted SD card for additional   
     storage.  The memory in that system has been upgraded to the 2GB   
     maximum that the machine can use.  My weakest system, but also   
     physically the smallest.  I need to think about how I might go   
     about putting a more recent version of Slackware on it, though.   
     It's not very useful as it is.   
      
     A Sony Vaio VPCW211AD mini notebook.  Intel Atom CPU, 2GB RAM,   
     and 1TB WD Blue SA510 SSD.  The system is not very powerful, but it   
     works well.  Currently running Slackware-15.0, but I'm planning to   
     upgrade it to Slackware64, probably after 15.1 is released.  Almost   
     as small as the EeePC, but with enough storage for a modern OS.   
      
     HP EliteBook 8470w, Intel Core i5, 8GB RAM, and a similar WD Blue   
     SA510 1TB SSD.  A bit of a workhorse, given its portability.   
     This one gets used a lot more than was originally intended.   
     Running Slackware64-15.0.   
      
     My daily "desktop" system is a "Frankenputer" with an AMD FX-8350   
     eight-core processor, 32GB RAM, a 250GB main disk drive, and a 4-disk   
     700GB RAID-5 array on a RocketRAID 640L SATA-III RAID controller.   
     That's running Slackware64-14.2, though I of course want to update   
     it.  It's just that updating your daily "wokstation" computer can   
     be so disruptive ...   
      
     I have another of the same hardware, with less disk space (and no   
     hardware RAID), that's used as a music workstation (Ardour and the   
     like), also on Slackware64-14.2.  That system hasn't been up since   
     late spring, due to a relocation and a still-pending rebuild of the   
     music room.   
      
   There are others, with more mundane specifications, running   
   Slackware64-15.0, running mail/DNS/web services, home network gateway,   
   and such, and a couple of Arch-Linux systems managed by my ${SO}.  ...   
   and still more waiting to have modern Slackware installed so they   
   can be returned to service.   
      
   Oh, and let's not forget (though it hasn't been powered on in   
   nearly 10 years, and probably will be a few more years before I   
   revive the project; that is *IF* I revive that project), the old   
   Compaq AlphaServer DS-10 that I had ported Slackware-10.2 to ...   
   I guess technically that was effectively "Slackware64", though I   
   don't believe that there *was* an official "Slackware64" at the time.   
   (Fred Emmott's Slamd64 project notwithstanding).   
      
   I don't think that I ever really consider it all that important what   
   the specs of any given system are.  I just don't push any of them   
   anywhere near the limits of what they can do, though I probably   
   get pretty close to the limit with the HP EliteBook, which does   
   a lot, considering it was supposed to be the "garage computer" ...   
   The workstations (main and music) are overpowered for what they do, and   
   that's really how I want them.  I do need to get the OS and software   
   up to date on both, though ...  (probably why the HP notebook gets   
   used so much ...)   
      
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   Sylvain Robitaille                                syl@therockgarden.ca   
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