Pentium 3 conquest (With Pictures)

#1 Sat, 26 Dec 2009 - 20:45 68kMLA

For $40 CAD I got a Pentium 3 850MHz, 256MB ram, and 20GB HD, with a 17" viewsonic flat CRT monitor. I am going to install Linux on this beast, or Rhapsody.

Pictures:

http://yfrog.com/3udscf0032xjx

#2 Sat, 26 Dec 2009 - 23:00 68kMLA

Just to warn you, Rhapsody is *VERY* picky with its hardware. Your board uses a VIA chipset, so likely will not work with Rhapsody. (Rhapsody officially dropped Intel support before the Pentium III came out, much less the circa late-1999/early-2000 machine you have.)

From what I recall, the "optimal" system for Rhapsody was based on an Intel SE440BX "Seattle" motherboard, as all onboard devices are supported. (And later Seattle boards could support up to a 1 GHz Pentium III, although the earliest models only went up to Pentium II 450 MHz.)

The best video cards with official support are the 8 MB versions of: ATI Rage, Matrox Millennium II, or the #9 Revolution 3D.

Intel 82556 or 82557-based network cards have the best support, and a real Sound Blaster 16 has the best sound support.

The IBM ThinkPad 560 or 760 are the only two notebooks with decent hardware support.

#3 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 - 02:45 68kMLA

Speaking of Rhapsody, myself and a few other people are working on a free Rhapsody OS. We also have support forums for Rhapsody as well (Apple's versions). We haven't achieved much but we could use all the help we can get.

Come visit us at FreeRhap.

#4 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 - 03:17 68kMLA

Ah that sucks that Rhapsody probably won't work :-( Also, agg23 I am already a member of that forum, my username there is macusr

#5 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 - 03:38 68kMLA

So, I ended up installing Haiku Alpha 1 on it, works good, but its only temporary ( I will not use wondows for the life of me)

#6 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 - 14:46 68kMLA

So, I ended up installing Haiku Alpha 1 on it, works good, but its only temporary ( I will not use wondows for the life of me)

I had Haiku on my Eee for a bit, but since it had no support for the wireless I just wiped it with Ubuntu. Have you tried any legacy BeOS apps on it? Are you familiar with BeBits and the newer Haikuware for applications?

#7 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 - 16:57 68kMLA

Yeah, I am familliar with BeBits ( Although, haikuware is news to me). "Back in the day" I used to use BeOS as my daily operating system (Sadly not on a BeBox *tear* ). Haiku is good, although it is not a replacement for actual BeOS, maybe I am just biased. I did a wipe of the system today and put Slackware on it.

#8 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 - 18:00 68kMLA

Yeah, I am familliar with BeBits ( Although, haikuware is news to me). "Back in the day" I used to use BeOS as my daily operating system (Sadly not on a BeBox *tear* ). Haiku is good, although it is not a replacement for actual BeOS, maybe I am just biased. I did a wipe of the system today and put Slackware on it.

I do have to say that for an Alpha 1, Haiku is in a quite impressive state. Especially when compared to something like ReactOS that's been around longer, Haiku is far more usable. I share the yearning for a BeBox, although I did use BeOS quite a bit on an old Toshiba laptop many years ago.