We really need to see info from the BIOS — exact CPU model, RAM speed, etc.
As others have pointed out, this is a pretty anachronistic build — i586 with DDR1 is just weird, so it’s possible there’s some really niche hardware and you may need an exotic kernel (or kernel options) to get anything to boot.
That said: have you just tried running a standard live or install CD from that time period? You could try booting a 2001 Slackware installer to see what happens.
Can you post the CPU info? I think it should be available from the BIOS.
I still use my i5-4670k machine. It has a SATA SSD, only 8GB RAM, but it is a completely zippy machine. Ancient (by today’s standards) 750Ti, but I only rarely use it for old games (Xonotic and Portal2) and it doesn’t break a sweat.
Debian, i3wm, so it ends up being lightweight but that’s my preferred setup regardless of specs.
Wild turkeys can fly, too. It’s impressive. I once came around a blind corner on my bike, there was a turkey in the road, and it took off in a manner I can only describe as 747esque — it did not look like it should be able to fly, yet there it was, clearly flying.
Another option is to remove it and symlink it to a static version of your choosing. I believe NM won’t replace a symlink. You can just remove the symlink when you’re done and it should go back to normal…I think.
Only additional thing I would do would be to try to ssh into it to. Sounds like that wouldn’t have worked anyway. But if you can ssh into it while it’s in a degraded-but-not-completely-borked state you can poke around, troubleshoot, and of course cleanly reboot.
I kinda prefer xargs to the -exec option — just feels more UNIXy to me (do one one job well).
But as another comment said, for grep I just use -r and --include. So clearly I’m not very consistent…
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One of the real downsides of ARM is, it seems, the relative lack of standardization. An x64 kernel? It’ll run on most anything from the last ten years at least. And as for boot process, it’s probably one of two options (and in many cases one computer can boot either legacy or EFI).
ARM, on the other hand…my raspberry pi collection does one thing, my Orange Pi does something else, and God help you if you want to try swapping the Orange kernel for the Raspberry (or vice versa)!
From article:
Paying people to develop features or fixing bug is fine, but when a huge number of contributors are paid by companies, this lead to poor decisions and conflicts of interest.
I think this depends on the structure of the project though. The Linux kernel has a huge number of corporate contributors, but it seems to be doing ok.
Maybe both? BSD for his server, Slackware for his desktop. Or something.
It’s from Phoronix. This is kinda what they do. It’s not worthy of the front page of the Wall Street Journal, but then, no one said it was…
Pandemic lockdown maybe? Everyone got bored a few months into 2020. By 2021 they finally figured out their wifi drivers 🤷
(I’m joking, I haven’t seriously struggled with wifi for a long time. I use Debian btw.)
Can you isolate the call to the sound from the DevTools? And if so, does DevTools allow you to edit the function? Perhaps you could GET/POST something on localhost which could trigger a shell script.
Can someone ELI5 why this even matters/is such a big deal? Does the default DE have its tentacles so deep in the distro that it can’t be changed by users to suit their preferences?
I run i3 on Debian, and…well, actually, there is no “and,” I just installed the WM I wanted and that was it. And as I recall the installer asked what DE/WM I wanted to install anyway.
Yes, just not the people who hang out on Linux communities on federated social media.
My carrier is Google Fi — one perk is that they will give you free data-only sims (up to 10 I think?) and you just pay for the data you use like any other data. I have used old Android phones in USB tether mode this way, and it works just fine. So, rpi+old/cheap phone should do the trick.
One fun bonus is that if you tether over USB it will work as a WiFi dongle, too — the failover from WiFi to cell should happen on the phone, transparently iirc. Not sure if that affects you.
Caveat is that I did this a while ago, and their pricing structure may have changed. Finished to be a great deal but has slowly become another carrier with not much to differentiate it…