Photor's Computing Machines
My Computer-Hardware
DELL Inspiron 8100 (Multimedia):
1GHz Pentium III (mobile)
RAM: 2 x 256MB
HD: 40 GB (IDE)
NVidia2Go
TFT-Display mit 1600x1200 Pixel (
XF86Config-4
)
8x DVD-ROM
3Com NIC (100MBit)
no more Modem:
Irda: not yet configured
2 PCMCIA-Ports: CF-Card-Adapter, WLAN-Card works
Firewire: not yet configured
USB-Mouse: Logitech MouseMan Traveler
Operating system:
FreeBSD 5.4
(
Installation
)
Athlon 700:
RAM: 2 x 256MB
HD: 20 GB Maxtor (IDE) + 80 GB Maxtor (IDE)
(
Partition tables
and the
fstab
)
Matrox Millenium G450 which feeds the
Samsung SyncMaster 171s TFT (1280x1024 Pixel)
Logitech TrackMan Wheel
Network: RealTek 10 MBit
Soundblaster 32 AWE
Scanner UMAX ASTRA 1220S hanging on a
Tekram DC 390 SCSI-Adapter
Plextor PX-20TSi 20x CD-Rom, SCSI
CD-RW-Burner:
SANYO CRD-2 (12x,4x,32x), SCSI
USB-6in1-CardReader (Sitecom)
Operating system:
FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE
no more Micro$oft on my machines:
"I will NEVER be assimilated!"
Why FreeBSD?
;-)
Pentium 90: (running at 100MHz)
RAM: 48MB
HD: 1GB Quantum (IDE) + 4GB IBM (IDE)
ELSA Winner 1000
Toshiba 4x CD-Rom
Network: RealTek 10 MBit
Modem: ELSA Microlink 56k (extern)
Operating system:
FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE
I try to establish a "firewall" using FreeBSD. The last
incidences with the Linux-kernels 2.4.10-14 let me ask myself,
if the Linux-hype costs too much in security (just my 2 cent).
This antique hardware is still strong enough to work under
Linux or FreeBSD.
Last modified: Thu Sep 6 11:01:47 CEST 2007