[mdlug] Speedy Older Pentium 3 on openSUSE 11.1

[gib at juno.com]

I attended a meeting of a bunch of old car nuts where they talked about a $50 camera.  The camera used a couple batteries and a memory card.  They would tape the camera to the car to help with diagnostics (where is that noise coming from . . .).

---------- Original Message ----------
From: Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
To: MDLUG Main List <mdlug at mdlug.org>
Subject: [mdlug] Speedy Older Pentium 3 on openSUSE 11.1
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:19:04 -0400

Hello Everyone,
	Since Ray's post about setting up a webcam controlled by Motion, I
thought I'd give it a try. First step was to dust off an old T22
Thinkpad I still have, a Pentium 3. After several failed downloads/burns
of Ubuntu 8.04, I thought about giving openSUSE; with xfce as window
manager, a try. I remember hearing one of the Ray's mention that an
option for older and slower systems is to use a lighter weight window
manager with the latest distro. I should be able to compile and install
Motion from source, hopefully. Boy howdy, was he ever right. The old
Pentium 3 T22 boots and logs me in quicker than my dual core 2ghz T61
can get me into the land of Gnome, with a fingerprint scanner! Now, I
still have to get some camera's, and other assorted stuff. Eventually
I'd like to build a machine for use with LinuxMCE, but for now I can buy
an cheapo web cam to play with.

Best Regards,
-- 
Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
Peter The Plumber

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