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by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/13/2007, 1:15pm PDT |
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All things considered, I think it runs great. I have a BH6 motherboard running the processor, at 2.10 volts, with 768 MB of RAM. I can't remember which video card is in it, but it's an AGP card and the word "Winfast" is written on the card in italics. I think the video card has 128 MB of RAM. The network card is a very common one and I'm failing to remember the manufacturer.
The initial install went great: boot from the CD (I am using the version before the latest, not Feisty Fawn but the one before that) that they sent me for free, and start from there. It will let you run the OS from the CD with only a few files on the HD. You can click the "install" icon it puts there to have it completely setup the drive.
I installed it to an 8 gig drive and saw that I had a 30 kicking around. Now a master at installing Ubuntu (PSH!) I felt no need to have the network cable going to the card, and put it back into my XP machine while Ubuntu installed again. (I didn't have a hub in that room at the time.) The install failed four times, locking up, before I finally put the wire back in and left it alone. Then it installed correctly again.
I think it runs pretty well. I'm not doing anything extensive with it, just logging onto some muds and seeing how my text games look in Linux. (Like shit, for the record.) Getting onto the Internet with it was just as easy as doing so in XP (plug in network cable, wait, access browser, call someone a fag). It stutters on Youtube, however. Actually, I should get DOSbox or something going before saying how fantastic it runs. For the web, e-mail, chatting and Zork it's great.
Hey, I have a ton of video cards and such from the era where your PC dominated. Can I send you any equipment? Write me a mail at beaver@zombieworld.com and I'll put together the stuff I am trying to get rid of and if you want any of it, it's yours.
the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey! |
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