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Free at last, free at last
Aug. 13th, 2006 02:15 pmThe house is now free of any computers running Microsoft OS.
Eliz has a Mac. I run Debian stable on my server and testing on my desktop. Z has a Mac. Downstairs, however, we have kept around an old machine for guest use. It has been running Windows 95 but not very well. A few months ago some configuration bit changed and you could thenceforth either see 16-bit color or a wireless network connection, but not both on the same boot.
Today I tried to fix it. Nope. So I installed NT. Nope -- neither video nor wireless support. Then I tried Debian testing. It works well. Who knew that a 128MB 400Mhz PII could make a decent X desktop? I even got WINE to run Z's Wiggles game without any particular effort. (I still have to plug in speakers, make sure sound support is working, and write a script to mount a CD, run a game with WINE, and then unmount the CD...)
XFCE4 as a desktop environment Doesn't Suck, even on a (by modern standards) slowpoke machine without enough RAM. Firefox 1.5.0.foo seems to have cured most of its memory leaks.
And with any luck, I'll never have to touch a Windows box without getting paid for it.
Eliz has a Mac. I run Debian stable on my server and testing on my desktop. Z has a Mac. Downstairs, however, we have kept around an old machine for guest use. It has been running Windows 95 but not very well. A few months ago some configuration bit changed and you could thenceforth either see 16-bit color or a wireless network connection, but not both on the same boot.
Today I tried to fix it. Nope. So I installed NT. Nope -- neither video nor wireless support. Then I tried Debian testing. It works well. Who knew that a 128MB 400Mhz PII could make a decent X desktop? I even got WINE to run Z's Wiggles game without any particular effort. (I still have to plug in speakers, make sure sound support is working, and write a script to mount a CD, run a game with WINE, and then unmount the CD...)
XFCE4 as a desktop environment Doesn't Suck, even on a (by modern standards) slowpoke machine without enough RAM. Firefox 1.5.0.foo seems to have cured most of its memory leaks.
And with any luck, I'll never have to touch a Windows box without getting paid for it.
