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I installed CoreOS on a 9-year-old MacBook

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Re: I installed CoreOS on a 9-year-old MacBook

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Post by gh02t »

grubles wrote: post #17
gh02t wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've got OpenBSD running on an old Dell Atom netbook that I use alongside my desktop for keeping notes/task lists/music control etc. It's quite usable apart from most browsers run like crap, which is impressive for a 6 year old laptop on a processor that was considered underpowered even when it came out.

HP Mini (Intel Atom) with Gentoo here! With no X it sits pretty at 12MB RAM usage. Now to figure out what daemons to run on it...

I'm using i3 just like on my (much much more powerful) desktop, but I hardly use any gui apps apart from urxvt on it. It'd probably make an acceptable webserver if I wanted, but I already have a dedicated server machine. Even with X it's only rolling 82MB memory usage.

Re: I installed CoreOS on a 9-year-old MacBook

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Post by kozukumi »

jggonz wrote: post #20

This reminds me of some of my early linux boxes. As a poor high school student in the mid to late 90s I was only able to get free computer equipment. Some of it was pretty cool. In order to squeeze as much performance out of them, I ran slackware and debian. Some of the most memorable were: 386DX AT&T Server tower (a huge case with a 40lb 1.2GB Hard drive) - got it to run slackware and serve files on a 10mbps network…

I am hoping you mean 128kbps MP3 :)

Re: I installed CoreOS on a 9-year-old MacBook

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Post by kps »

BogusIKnow wrote: post #18
jakobegger wrote: post #8

This brings back memories of my first website. I hosted it on my white iBook G3, and I used dyndns to get a free hostname for my dynamic IP. The website was only accessible when I was at home, and plugged in (we had no Wifi yet). It was pretty popular with my classmates for some time -- there was a self-written forum on it where you could upload photos, and people used it to share holiday pictures (this was before Fa…

I feel so old, my first website run on a DEC Alpha.

So did AltaVista, when it was good.

Re: I installed CoreOS on a 9-year-old MacBook

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Post by emptyflask »

I'm running OSX Yosemite on a 2006 Mac Pro 1,1. It wasn't too difficult once I had the correct boot.efi, and it works flawlessly. With an SSD, a minor CPU upgrade, and a recent video card it's nearly as fast as a 2013 Macbook Pro.

I'm thinking of switching it over to Linux though, I'm no longer happy with the direction in which Apple is headed, and I do nearly everything in the terminal and browser anyway.

Re: I installed CoreOS on a 9-year-old MacBook

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Post by Joeri »

jggonz wrote: post #20

This reminds me of some of my early linux boxes. As a poor high school student in the mid to late 90s I was only able to get free computer equipment. Some of it was pretty cool. In order to squeeze as much performance out of them, I ran slackware and debian. Some of the most memorable were: 386DX AT&T Server tower (a huge case with a 40lb 1.2GB Hard drive) - got it to run slackware and serve files on a 10mbps network…

My favorite linux machine was a 486 laptop with a 450mb hd and 20 mb ram which originally came with windows 95 running at 640x480, which I got handed down from my dad around 2000.

I bootstrapped a barebones debian system, custom-compiled basically everything on my (debian) desktop and copied it over, stripping out as much as I could, and ended up getting a pretty decent X environment going on it, with opera as browser and fvwm as window manager. I programmed my first web app on that machine, in C++. It didn't even run all that slowly, one wonders what went wrong that modern software is so horribly slow. Good times though, fun machine.

Re: I installed CoreOS on a 9-year-old MacBook

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Post by anonbanker »

grubles wrote: post #17
gh02t wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've got OpenBSD running on an old Dell Atom netbook that I use alongside my desktop for keeping notes/task lists/music control etc. It's quite usable apart from most browsers run like crap, which is impressive for a 6 year old laptop on a processor that was considered underpowered even when it came out.

HP Mini (Intel Atom) with Gentoo here! With no X it sits pretty at 12MB RAM usage. Now to figure out what daemons to run on it...

you mean other than systemd? :)

Re: I installed CoreOS on a 9-year-old MacBook

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Post by anonbanker »

emptyflask wrote: post #24

I'm running OSX Yosemite on a 2006 Mac Pro 1,1. It wasn't too difficult once I had the correct boot.efi, and it works flawlessly. With an SSD, a minor CPU upgrade, and a recent video card it's nearly as fast as a 2013 Macbook Pro. I'm thinking of switching it over to Linux though, I'm no longer happy with the direction in which Apple is headed, and I do nearly everything in the terminal and browser anyway.

If you do switch, look for a KDE-based distribution like Kubuntu or Antergos. you'll thank me later.

Re: I installed CoreOS on a 9-year-old MacBook

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Post by grubles »

anonbanker wrote: post #26
grubles wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HP Mini (Intel Atom) with Gentoo here! With no X it sits pretty at 12MB RAM usage. Now to figure out what daemons to run on it...

you mean other than systemd? :)

What systemd?? OpenRC here. <:)

Re: I installed CoreOS on a 9-year-old MacBook

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Post by osxrand »

emptyflask wrote: post #24

I'm running OSX Yosemite on a 2006 Mac Pro 1,1. It wasn't too difficult once I had the correct boot.efi, and it works flawlessly. With an SSD, a minor CPU upgrade, and a recent video card it's nearly as fast as a 2013 Macbook Pro. I'm thinking of switching it over to Linux though, I'm no longer happy with the direction in which Apple is headed, and I do nearly everything in the terminal and browser anyway.

Running the same machine with Yosemite, no cpu upgrade but an SSD and video card upgrade. Thinking of putting new cpu's in as they are down to $35 for a pair, almost free at this point. Can't complain about the machine at all, going on 10 years now which is just awesome, and I do so love internal HD's on sleds.
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