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Re: [LUG] Save your old hardware!

 

Simon Williams wrote:

>Tom Potts wrote:
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>
>>I must confess I've a problem with ditching old hardware that used to 
>>run 'everything'
>>http://distrocenter.linux.com/distrocenter/06/05/22/1828207.shtml?tid=127
>>may be of help to those of a similar disposition..
>>    
>>
>
>Interesting, but as was pointed out, Slackware (and Arch) already run 
>quite nicely on old hardware. And all my old hardware is less than 
>266Mhz anyway, which is really pushing it to run any sort of graphical 
>interface (enough for a simple server though- if only I had larger 
>sticks of RAM).
>
>  
>
Better still convert it to an LTSP client. Any 486 upwards with 32Mb 
will do !

Tom.

Old computers should never die, they just end up as LTSP clients !


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