I Ubuntu'd the aged athalon.
This took awhile because the disk image for the installer wasn't
completely downloaded. Wasted a bunch of discs figuring that out. I
only had a few setbacks.
- Screen resolution was too small. This was an Ubuntu configuration bug where the refresh rate is never set for my monitor, so it defaulted to the smallest size possible.
- Thank god for having run Debian Gnu/Linux for a couple of years. This was relatively easy to track down and self-repair.
- It needed a non-free software video driver for Linux, which I'm not sure there even is for the Voodoo 5500
- Samba file sharing was not automagically enabled, and had to be installed and then hand-configured. These days, when you tell Ubuntu/Gnome to share folders, it helps the user step through installing NFS or Samba.
- Needs BIND installed so I can refer to other computers on my network by name. This had the interesting side effect while using my privoxy proxy: sometimes, other user's computers were served when browsing to 192.168.0.1. I didn't think that was possible. This has been fixed in my browser settings.
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