On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 03:17:52PM -0400, Sunder wrote:
Sure, you can revive old hardware with Linux, but you'll find it runs KDE 3.0 or GNOME slower than windows 95 did on the same hardware. So unless you're willing to also go to older software (or at least less demanding software) you've still got a useless machine.
What? Your brand of crack must be particularly poor these days. A 200mhz cyrix cpu runs linux w/gnome fast enough for most anything. Slower than w95??? Come again? I've run 1ghz boxes and they really don't surf the net much faster, so what's your point?
OTOH, if it does work well enough, and you don't care for swapping memos in Micro$loth Word V283.23 with cow-orkers or don't care about watching the latest 3d movie on XVD disks, then by all means, if you don't mind the huge power consumption, use that old iron.
power consumption?? my 200mhz box? -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com