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YT7MPB > SYSOP 21.09.20 16:31z 88 Lines 3120 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: Keep old BBS hardware?
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On 9/5/20 11:44 AM, IW2OHX wrote:
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> Hi Misko,
>
> wow! The Celeron CPU is very old! :)
> My suggestion is: don't remove the GUI uninstalling the packages,
> because you could run in a problem with dependencies. Just inhibit
> it from starting at Operating System boot. I guess you could remove
> some symbolic links from the runlevel etc/init.d/rc*.d.
>
> Don't upgrade to newer OS version. The hardware is very old, just keep
> security updates if the Linux box is exposed to the Internet.
>
> At IQ2LB (the Radio Club), I am running a very old Ubuntu 12.04 on a
> legacy hardware. I am worried of updating it because I don't know how
> could happen with hardware support.
>
> Regards,
> Marco
> iw2ohx
>
Hi Marco,
I think that I already tried to answer you some days ago, but in any
case it goes once again. At first I removed the GUI completely but found
it uneasy for me to work in CLI all. So after some two week I
reinstalled MATE graphics again, so I breath easier now, HI HI.
Did not upgrade the system, but will try to compile FBB to the last
version in days to come. For now, FBB 7.0.8-beta seems to work as its
best, but probably has some bugs or so.
Outgoing Telnet forwarding seems ok, and need to continue preparing VHF
radio and other gear.
Misko YT7MPB
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> Hello SysOps,
>
> I have an old computer running an old version of LinFBB and a packet
> node under it (probably some old FPAC version) that I was using for many
> years to test in the home LAN. The hardware is:
>
> CPU Celeron (Mendocino) 400 MHz
> RAM 217.2 MiB (reported by Linux), shall be 224 MB
> HDD 6.3 GiB (reported by Linux), dual-boot with WinXP
>
> OS Debian 8.11 Jessie
> Kernel Linux 3.2.0-4-486
>
> GUI Mate 1.8.1
>
> The first installation was Debian 6.0.1a (Squeeze) and it gradually
> upgraded to Jessie. Until recently it worked pretty well. Few days ago I
> attached it to the broadband in my office to update things and it
> downloaded some 270 MB of packages, incl. Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.
>
> But after updating, it is now terribly slow. Anyway, I think to keep it
> in the ham club as a local VHF node/bbs combo, but wonder how to do it
> without much headache. At first, I wonder if removing complete GUI
> environment (Mate, etc.) would make it a little bit faster, so to leave
> it at CLI only.
>
> What your experience says? I suppose that upgrading to Debian 9 will
> fail because of the old hardware that is no more supported. However I
> would like to avoid complete re-installation.
>
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