Craig Box wrote:
Gavin Denby wrote:
Are you insulting my 486's P1's and My p1 233 desktop lappy with wireless too ??
OK SO I AM A HORDER, BUT THEY STILL WORK
There is a common misconception that Linux is only for old hardware. While it's true that Linux can be made to run well on older hardware, and breathe life into machines that might otherwise be considered useless,
A lot of the reuse for older machines is in mini servers. a 486 will make a fairly reasonable router if you don't have much to route, and don't mind it perhaps finally reaching the end of its life in a few years. However it won't run a modern gui desktop, basically at all. You can cut the cruft off a machine that needs to do just one thing then run it on older hardware easily. If you're trying to get an old machine to work the same way as a modern machine then yeah, you will be disappointed.