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Hello out there in computerland. I have played around with Redhat and a couple other flavors in the past, but now I am serious about finding a replacement for Windows XP before it's support goes away. I just cannot consider windows 8, because I've heard too many people complain about it. I bought the 6 disk set of Slackware 14.0 and it has been very educational. Darkstar is currently a G4e620n mb with a P4 2.66 ghz and 512mb of ram. It should suffice for now. I don't think I will ever be a Guru, but I will try to help if I can. I've been playing with, and building my own boxes for quite a while. I don't go for the most expensive components (cheap is good, free is better is my mantra), and a lot of what I use would be considered OLD, but I am surrounded by 6 computers of different flavors, and they do what I need them to do.
 


Aloha and welcome to Linux.org! You can learn a lot here. Slackware is a great choice. Many people here like Slackware, so many users here should be able to answer many or all of your questions. Enjoy the site.
 
Good to see another Slackware user here. Slackware is a good choice if you really want to get your hands dirty running Linux. Welcome aboard!
 
VP9KS said:
Hello out there in computerland. I have played around with Redhat and a couple other flavors in the past, but now I am serious about finding a replacement for Windows XP before it's support goes away. I just cannot consider windows 8, because I've heard too many people complain about it. I bought the 6 disk set of Slackware 14.0 and it has been very educational. Darkstar is currently a G4e620n mb with a P4 2.66 ghz and 512mb of ram. It should suffice for now. I don't think I will ever be a Guru, but I will try to help if I can. I've been playing with, and building my own boxes for quite a while. I don't go for the most expensive components (cheap is good, free is better is my mantra), and a lot of what I use would be considered OLD, but I am surrounded by 6 computers of different flavors, and they do what I need them to do.
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Nothing wrong with using old kit mate I myself have my own OS for this purpose. Steam Computing is cool. Remember Have fun.
 
Thanks for the welcome guys. I must admit that my avatar is a bit old. I cropped it from a picture taken in Bermuda in 1979. I just turned 61 on july 26th. By the way, I was looking through my "junkbox" yesterday, and found an old P4 2.88ghz. I dropped in into darkstar, just to see what would happen. Now the hyperthreading entry in the bios is enabled. Before, I didn't even see that entry, although the documentation for the bios described it. It seems to have increased the speed a bit. time will tell.

daren, you mentioned steam computing. What is that? I am not the king of "old kit", but certainly a prince! :)
 
No, Im using slackware 14.0 Sorry for the confusion, but "darkstar" is the default computer name used in slackware. I liked it, so I left in. But thanks for the info, there are so many flavours of linux, that I can't keep up with them.
ciao
 
VP9KS said:
No, Im using slackware 14.0 Sorry for the confusion, but "darkstar" is the default computer name used in slackware. I liked it, so I left in. But thanks for the info, there are so many flavours of linux, that I can't keep up with them.
ciao
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Slackware is pretty cool.
 
Welcome! I been quite inactive so I just saw this. But welcome! It's always good to see another user of slackware!
 
VP9KS said:
Thanks for the welcome guys. I must admit that my avatar is a bit old. I cropped it from a picture taken in Bermuda in 1979. I just turned 61 on july 26th. By the way, I was looking through my "junkbox" yesterday, and found an old P4 2.88ghz. I dropped in into darkstar, just to see what would happen. Now the hyperthreading entry in the bios is enabled. Before, I didn't even see that entry, although the documentation for the bios described it. It seems to have increased the speed a bit. time will tell.

daren, you mentioned steam computing. What is that? I am not the king of "old kit", but certainly a prince! :)
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Hi,

Steam Computing is my term for using either real old computers or distros with retro kernels for older hardware, ie Damn Small Linux
 
Hello again,
I am happy to tell all that I have finally managed to get my Linux box on line! I am using it to type this message. It took a while, but It works fine on a wired connection. I tried to ge it to use my usb wireless module to no avail. Oh, well, that gives me something to work on! And , Darren, It is old kit! My notes are all scribbled on slips of paper, now I need to get them all together so I can actually read them!! I need to type them into the computer, because they look like I wrote them in greek (or latin, maybee?)!
 
tried to ge it to use my usb wireless module
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Wireless card or dongle?

Open a Terminal and issue the command: lspci
What appears against Network Controller?
If the command is not found you may need to install lspci.

If lspci doesn't produce the result try: lsusb
 
It's an older Realtech usb external rf module, with a helical antenna. My wife bought it a long time ago, when the wireless module in her old laptop failed and she didn't want to get rid of the computer. We used it in the van a few times on trips. When we needed to find a hotel, we would park outside a Burger king and search the local listings on the internet. It has a great range. It works well with XP and Vista, but nothing after that. I thought this would be a good use for it. I haven't given up yet, I'm just scratching my head for a while. I just hate to get rid of something that is paid-for and I still might have a use for. Thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try when I get the chance.
 
Darren Hale said:
Hi,

Steam Computing is my term for using either real old computers or distros with retro kernels for older hardware, ie Damn Small Linux
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Darren,
I worked as a bench tech for Heathkit back in the 80s. a customer brought in his H89 for service. His can liked to sleep on top of it while he was using it, because it liked to soak up the heat from the crt. It seems that the cat was sleeping on top of the computer one evening, and lost control of it's bladder! Don't you know that was a mess! AND STINK!!!
 
Well I Tried Zorin OS 9 on darkstar. Remember, it is a P4 2.66Ghz, but it ran like a 4Mhz 8088. Can you say S L O W? I saw the write-ups for it saying that you could make it look like Win XP or Win 7, so i thought that I might be able to get my wife to come over to Linux with it. she liked it at first, but she wanted to run her windows games without any work. needless to say, I failed to convert her. oh, well, i haven't given up yet. I'll try her on mint cinnamon.
 
Hi Rihanna! Sorry it took me so long to answer your intro, but I have been working MUCHO Overtime! Welcome to the crew!
Paul:)
 
VP9KS said:
Darren,
I worked as a bench tech for Heathkit back in the 80s. a customer brought in his H89 for service. His can liked to sleep on top of it while he was using it, because it liked to soak up the heat from the crt. It seems that the cat was sleeping on top of the computer one evening, and lost control of it's bladder! Don't you know that was a mess! AND STINK!!!
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Boy I bet it was.
 
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