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| Started by | Levis Yarema <levisyarema91@gmail.com> |
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| First post | 2022-04-13 19:20 +0200 |
| Last post | 2022-04-13 21:00 +0200 |
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Re: amd64 running on Intel Celeron and Pentium? (was: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update) Levis Yarema <levisyarema91@gmail.com> - 2022-04-13 19:20 +0200
Re: amd64 running on Intel Celeron and Pentium? (was: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update) Odo Poppinger <odopopp@gmail.com> - 2022-04-13 19:30 +0200
Re: amd64 running on Intel Celeron and Pentium? (was: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update) Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2022-04-13 21:00 +0200
| From | Levis Yarema <levisyarema91@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2022-04-13 19:20 +0200 |
| Subject | Re: amd64 running on Intel Celeron and Pentium? (was: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update) |
| Message-ID | <EbOOR-8vGF-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
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On 13.04.22 17:11, piorunz wrote: > On 13/04/2022 15:57, Michael Stone wrote: > >> family 15 model 2 is northwood based. no amd64. the best option for that >> one is to find a cheap second hand box with a CPU that's only 10 years >> old instead of (literally) 20 years old and retire it; those old p4's >> were really power hungry, and it shouldn't be hard to find a replacement >> for a cost (maybe even free) that will pay for itself in electricity >> savings alone. >> > Ok. Yes indeed these CPUs are so old that I can give away better ones > for free for this fellow Debian user if he is in my country. > CPUs like that I sell on eBay from refurbished computers for almost > zero, just as a hobby, to give it second life. Working on such machine > is impossible apart from passive browsing and text typing. > If I would get an x64 CPU from a Linux pro, sure I would take it. Otherwise I would not recommend to just take any old hardware for exchange with my working one since not all of it was easily well supported by Linux these days, as far as I can remember.
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| From | Odo Poppinger <odopopp@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2022-04-13 19:30 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <EbOYx-8vJX-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #6054 |
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On 13.04.22 19:18, Levis Yarema wrote: > If I would get an x64 CPU from a Linux pro, sure I would take it. > Otherwise I would not recommend to just take any old hardware for > exchange with my working one since not all of it was easily well > supported by Linux these days, as far as I can remember. > You can not replace any i386 machine with x64. Some old programs I am running only work with Windows XP and the serial and/or parallel port. Not every computer has that. However I do also need Linux, mainly for processing my data.
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| From | Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> |
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| Date | 2022-04-13 21:00 +0200 |
| Subject | Re: amd64 running on Intel Celeron and Pentium? (was: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update) |
| Message-ID | <EbQnE-8wtl-3@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| In reply to | #6054 |
On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 07:18:53PM +0200, Levis Yarema wrote: >If I would get an x64 CPU from a Linux pro, sure I would take it. Otherwise I >would not recommend to just take any old hardware for exchange with my working >one since not all of it was easily well supported by Linux these days, as far >as I can remember. 10 year old hardware is generally not a problem. You might have abysmal video performance, but so does anything with 20 year old hardware. In the worst case, if it doesn't work, pick different 10 year old hardware.
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