oldie still starting up

[Spanik]

I pulled out an old laptop, a Dell Vostro 1700 with a Centrino Duo, 19" screen, 2 HDD's! and separate Nvidia graphics. I used this years ago to record live sound with an Edirol FA-66 firewire interface and FFADO.

The battery was shot but it started straight up complaining about the time (battery gone). Took me a few tries on the pasword. But it booted and ran. Did a "uname -a"....

"Linux dell 2.6.34-gentoo-r1 #1 SMP PREEMPT ...." That kernel was released in 2010. Last recording I found on it were from 2015.

Next weekend I'm going to dig out that Edirol FA-66 and see if that still works.
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