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