Keeping phlogging and keeping getting weird ideas ;-)
After my Raspberry Pi Workstation is working perfectly fine, my eye
fell on a old Laptop lying around in my dads office... its an ECS "Laptop"
without a battery... more or less a slightly modern "portable" computer with
an 1 Ghz Transmeta Crusoe CPU and about 512 MB Ram. If i remember correctly,
the Laptop was bought somewhere around 1999 up to 2001. What would life be
without challenges, so i got an SUSE 8.0 Linux distro (also from around the
timeframe of the laptop) and installed it. Its surprising how well it holds
up the test of time: The desktop of KDE 3.0 still looks pleasant, its
reasonable fast, and - most surprising - nearly everything (except the
soundcard) works out of the box.
I think i will use this for the next meeting in the company... i must hold
up my reputation as the weird computer guy ;-)
