I restored a Dell Optiplex GX1 (built in 1999) with Debian 12 32 bit.
I am impressed at how well it runs! It has 640 Megabytes of RAM, the
Pentium II 350 MHz processor. I believe it has a Cirrus Logic CS4281
sound card. I have to log back into the machine and check! I used sox
to play some ogg files and it barely touched the CPU. I would think
this should be expected because it's a discrete card. I think the nice
thing about having a physical machine is actually connecting to hardware
like a sound card. I know you can pass through the sound card to a VM,
yet I have not done that yet. :-O
I installed Java and LibreOffice dev package and hacked some automated
LibreOffice stuff using the Java API. I have found getting the
LibreOffice SDK a little bit challenging.
This is sort of an unfortunate development, because I will probably keep
this server around for a while.
I tend to accumulate "stuff" and my resolution for 2023 has been to clear
out some of the accumulation.
Well, maybe I will sell it or probably turn it into the recycling yard
soon.
Brian
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Brian Lavender
http://www.brie.com/brian/
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
