Old Pentium 3

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 7:26 pm

Old Pentium 3 I brought back to life.

http://linux.myeffect.net/

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 7:34 pm

Heehee....opens up fine.
A 450...the first P3...slot!

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 7:48 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Heehee....opens up fine.
A 450...the first P3...slot!

LOL.. yep... I think it can only take up to 340 MB of SDRAM PC100.. And wow some of the most dust that I have seen in a while.. I had to take every thing out of it clean it and put it all back in again. It's a every quiet box though.. a Old Gateway Essentials. Thick metal tower case.

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 7:50 pm

I also put a Gigabit nic card in it.. I didn't have any 10/100's laying around anymore. My boss is going to give me some more stuff, and seeing how I have a nice office in my house now, the more the merrier. LOL.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 7:58 pm

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 9:43 pm

very cool my friend...I've still got my first computer sitting in the closet. It's a p60/32mb and was thinking of putting Puppy linux on it. I need to try and get it up to at least 64 mb though, which might be the max of that board.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Sun Mar 14, 2010 7:58 am

loop2kil wrote:very cool my friend...I've still got my first computer sitting in the closet. It's a p60/32mb and was thinking of putting Puppy linux on it. I need to try and get it up to at least 64 mb though, which might be the max of that board.

Ooo..those were back in the days when overclocking was done via jumpers.

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:53 am

p60... wasn't that socket 4? .. I think it was.. That would be cool, I've heard a lot of good things about puppy linux for older computers.

I rather have this computer on all the time, and have my main rig off when I'm not around. I still have to go thru and uninstall some of the packages.

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Sun Mar 14, 2010 11:51 am

Shinobi wrote:p60... wasn't that socket 4? .. I think it was.. That would be cool, I've heard a lot of good things about puppy linux for older computers.

I rather have this computer on all the time, and have my main rig off when I'm not around. I still have to go thru and uninstall some of the packages.

truthfully, I don't know for sure as i've never had the hsf off. I think it's socket 5 though....I need some single sided EDO to max this sucker out, not really sure what the max is either.

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 6:38 pm

If you do install Puppy linux on that P60, try LXDE as a Window Manager. It's really fast and designed for older computers.

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Sun Mar 28, 2010 1:53 pm

This box is becoming very useful

I had some old PC100 SDRAM laying around.. so I was able to get the memory up to 256 MB.. the total the box can handle is like 384 MB.

I was able to configure Samba on it, and I can transfer files from Windows to the Linux shares. I did have a old 3COM 10/100 MB PCI NIC card, so I installed that too, think I sniff packets using that as the interface, via Wireshark.

I bought some ultra cheap desktop speakers for $6.00 yesterday, so I can listen to my .MP3s and streaming music.

I do have a PCI Sata controller laying around.. I'm getting really tempted to buy a large hard drive and install it in this box, for backing up my other workstation on the LAN.

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 1:48 pm

Now I put in a gigabit NIC card in it, and I'm also buying a external 640 GB USB hard drive for it to backup all of my workstations data to it via SAMBA. I also think that I am going to try Acronis True image again.. and see how that program is. Don't know if that is a free one or not.. but I need something to make images with.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 2:12 pm

http://www.ipfire.org

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 6:15 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:http://www.ipfire.org

Thanks.. Are you using that?

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 6:20 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:http://www.ipfire.org

looks pretty nice...reminds me a bit of IPcop. I've been using ClearOS but I'm not happy with the QOS, my 3 year old ipcop setup handled traffic better. I might give this one a try...wonder if they have wireless support?

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 10:04 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:http://www.ipfire.org

That was the easiest one I've ever setup before...only took a couple minutes. I set it up on an old 4gb compact flash drive I had lying around.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 10:09 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:http://www.ipfire.org

A new favorite over untangle?

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 11:39 am

YARDofSTUF wrote:A new favorite over untangle?

It's different..Untangle is UTM, IPFire is much like...as mentioned above..IPCop, install looks the same. Basically just a potent *nix router.

I still prefer PFSense at home.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 11:46 am

I've done a little more updating of the *nix router thread I have stickied in the router forum. Lots of fun stuff to try there.

Shinobi...you would like ClearOS.

I ran it in ESXi at home for a while. Basically an open source Small Business Server..e-mail, samba, print shares, web access, database, web server, print server, firewall, etc.

http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=235860

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 9:49 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:I've done a little more updating of the *nix router thread I have stickied in the router forum. Lots of fun stuff to try there.

Shinobi...you would like ClearOS. I ran it in ESXi at home for a while. Basically an open source Small Business Server..e-mail, samba, print shares, web access, database, web server, print server, firewall, etc.

http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=235860

Thanks, I may download that this weekend... Currently I am surface scanning this 640 GB WD External drive that I just got today from NewEgg for any bad sectors. After that I'm going to start making images of all of my workstation. After that, I'll have a more space on my smaller hard drives. Probably will try that ClearOS as a VM on one of them.

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 10:07 pm

I had to Google “puppy Linux”, I thought it was a typo or a joke at first. I didn’t know it was a real OS.

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 12:40 am

RoundEye wrote:I had to Google “puppy Linux”, I thought it was a typo or a joke at first. I didn’t know it was a real OS.

Puppy is freaking awesome...it runs entirely in ram and you don't even need a hard drive. Give it a whirl, it won't mess up your windows install as long as you don't install it to the hard drive

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 6:55 pm

loop2kil wrote:Puppy is freaking awesome...it runs entirely in ram and you don't even need a hard drive. Give it a whirl, it won't mess up your windows install as long as you don't install it to the hard drive

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Fri Jul 02, 2010 9:12 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:I've done a little more updating of the *nix router thread I have stickied in the router forum. Lots of fun stuff to try there.

Shinobi...you would like ClearOS. I ran it in ESXi at home for a while. Basically an open source Small Business Server..e-mail, samba, print shares, web access, database, web server, print server, firewall, etc.

http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=235860

Well YOSC, I downloaded and installed on the Pentium 3, IPFire

from the list you have posted: http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=235860

Pretty awesome so far! It's got "a lot" of nice add-ons.. I have samba running great.. but it also has a nice DDNS service that supports no-ip.com (which I still have "grandfathered" accounts there.)
Very happy.

Have you tried this one?

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Sat Jul 03, 2010 9:19 am

Shinobi wrote:Well YOSC, I downloaded and installed on the Pentium 3, IPFire

from the list you have posted: http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=235860

Pretty awesome so far! It's got "a lot" of nice add-ons.. I have samba running great.. but it also has a nice DDNS service that supports no-ip.com (which I still have "grandfathered" accounts there.)
Very happy.

Have you tried this one?

I think I downloaded it and began an install....I've been running on Astaro HGW (free)....which is impressing me. Very good content filtering, free antivirus scanning (dual engine), incredible dashboard and reporting, decent QoS features.

I'll be going back to PFSense soon probably, just for it's top notch QoS.

...and then in a few months try something else....lol.
Moved into the new house a couple of days ago, going to hang a 24U cabinet and get a nice setup going. Want to purchase one of the SuperMicro 1U Atom D510 servers with a pair of onboard Intel NICs.....that'll make for a nice edge box for various distros.

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Sat Jul 03, 2010 10:47 am

YeOldeStonecat wrote:I think I downloaded it and began an install....I've been running on Astaro HGW (free)....which is impressing me. Very good content filtering, free antivirus scanning (dual engine), incredible dashboard and reporting, decent QoS features.

I'll be going back to PFSense soon probably, just for it's top notch QoS.

...and then in a few months try something else....lol.
Moved into the new house a couple of days ago, going to hang a 24U cabinet and get a nice setup going. Want to purchase one of the SuperMicro 1U Atom D510 servers with a pair of onboard Intel NICs.....that'll make for a nice edge box for various distros.

Congrats on the new house! It great to have a room to put up a nice new server and workstation

I'm reorganizing my LAN today.