A lot of us still have old 32 bit machines that have not died yet, but on the other hand today there are many good 64 bit machines available for about $300 to $400. They have really crappy keyboards, no optical drive and other shortcomings but fairly decent displays and performance. You could buy a tablet and add the missing keyboard, optical drive, USB splitter and Ethernet port š.
David C On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 10:25 AM, Adrien Monteleone < [email protected]> wrote: > How could I forget about servers? > > True, 10 year stability is a plus for that case. > > As for keeping computers that long, my laptop is a 2007 model.(to be fair, > itās a Mac and not relevant to the distro choice issue) > > Various family members have a smattering of desktops from the very early > 2000s, most of them 32bit. They still run fine. (Iāve given them new life > with various *nix flavors) > > A client still has four desktops from the late 90s that we āupgradedā with > Pentium IIIs and *doubled* the RAM to 1GB. (they were running Lubuntu until > that got too bloated and now run Debian with LXDE) > > Iāve even rescued an old Compaq Laptop with a K6, and an IMB PI with 86MB! > of RAM with an old Puppy flavor. > > The two sticking points that are making old hardware tough to keep running > donāt have anything to do with the hardware. First, the OS vendors are > dropping 32bit images so change is forced and decent distro choices getting > slimmer. (mind you, these arenāt hackers using these things and those users > obviously arenāt keen on change) Second, most of these users need a decent, > safe and secure browser. (which have also dropped 32bit support) That more > than anything is going to force them to change hardware. If it werenāt for > the bloat of both browsers and websites, those machines would probably > continue to function just fine for several more years. (and might still as > long as they arenāt connected to the internet for anything other than > e-mail) > > But I digress as this is all far from the original topic. > > Regards, > Adrien > > > On Feb 26, 2018, at 7:29 AM, Derek Atkins <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Adrien, > > > > Adrien Monteleone <[email protected]> writes: > > > >> True, the version in EPEL7 is 2.6.18, one version back, soon to be two > >> versions back. > >> > >> I too was wondering the issue, now I see that essentially, nothing > >> ever gets back-ported for RHEL, so newer RPMs canāt pull in > >> dependencies because they donāt exist in the older repositories. They > >> can provide 10 years of support, because itās essentially frozen. > >> > >> Your experience and explanation makes me glad I never tried RHEL. > > > > RHEL is a great server platform. > > It SUCKS as a desktop platform. > > I would question why Jean-David chose it for a desktop, because it's > > really not designed for that. It is designed for long-term stability, > > which is exactly counter to being able to frequently upgrade to new > > software. > > > > Besides, who keeps (desktop) computers for 10 years? I refresh my > > laptop every 3. > > > >> Regards, > >> Adrien > > > > -derek > > > >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > > -- > > Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory > > Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) > > URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH > > [email protected] PGP key available > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
