Linux Desktops (linux/unix only please) with system specs.

Latest added into my small fleet ~

Have installed moonOS 3 (which is based on Ubuntu) as a dual boot to TinyMe on my old Dell GX-150 that i've brought back into use (P3 1GHz, 384MB RAM). It was an excuse to use Enlightenment again but it works very well, the P3 is a tad sluggish but not too bad. Had installed moonOS on a spare P3 600MHz laptop but the PCMCIA wifi isn't working properly hence using a desktop machine now ~

 

Re my previous post - have now replaced moonOS with Puppy again on that machine, but may still replace Puppy with PCLinuxOS 2009.1 as i rediscovered that again the other day (and i have a few other Puppy machines now anyway).

Anyways, here's Solaris 9 on my ancient Celeron 500MHz laptop, accessed thru Xming. Hadn't used Xming before (would normally use Hummingbird Exceed), Xming seems to work a treat, am well chuffed ~



(the laptop is docked, it lives under a proper Dell stand which is tucked away under one of the desks, nice because it saves space - it allows an old xbox and an xbox 360 to sit ontop, and running via the dock allows 1024x768 to a spare monitor whereas the laptop can only muster 800x600 when used as a laptop)

Am going to start a refresher on my bash scripting, poor old brain isn't learning enough in this economy

 

Firefox 2.0.0.20 in Solaris 9 (x86), system specs in previous post. Not fussed with Flash, this machine is just for checking emails and scripting ~

 

I replaced moonOS with Puppy again, no reason really, that PC isn't used much so i chop and change it now and then. Would you believe i've only discovered podcasts today (how behind the times am i eh), just experimenting with scheduling downloads of the Alex Jones and Chris Moyles shows using Juice. Fantastic little program, it can live on my little netbook downloading each show unattended, like Wall-E

edit- i don't mean downloading Wall-E, i mean Juice is like Wall-E

 

Have been tinkering with said PC again, it's a triple boot again, now it's Win7/Puppy 4.20 SMP/Macpup Foxy 3.0 (macpup is based on Puppy 4.3.1 with kernel 2.6.30.5) as i came across Macpup on distrowatch.com a couple of days ago. Puppy linux with the Enlightenment e17 window manager (version .062) already built-in was far too tempting to resist. I have 6 workspaces (each has it's own wallpaper, not that i see them often) which is obviously like having 6 monitors. All programs have been added to the taskbar otherwise known as the 'shelf'. I used to use Enlightenment on one of my work machines, mainly as it was the most intuitive way to have obscene amounts of command line sessions running for months on end, work and scripting was a breeze this way.
This runs so well that i will end up ditching the Puppy 4.20 partition at some point, not sure what to replace it with though as i have no need to use anything else now..



edit- Got my Freeview DVB-T USB stick working, am watching Michael Caine in The Black Windmill on ITV1 ~



edit- New background for one of my 6 workspaces on this machine ~



Got the piccy from here ~ An amateur stargazer has stunned astronomers around the world with his photographs of the universe – taken from his garden shed.

 

Updated the previous post the other day.

Main linux box has been up 5 days now, crunching thru Seti workunits (there's enough people out there doing Folding@home or whatever, i prefer to find Aliens, but to be serious i've been using Seti for 10 years now so that's what i stick to), Firefox 3.6 and Google Chrome, VLC player, 2 different remote desktop programs, i can effortlessly mount any local hard drive partitions, network shares are just as easy, Amsn and Pidgin for instant messaging, Enlightenment window manager, 6 workspaces etc etc etc, i just love Puppy. Does it show ?