People need to drop the "update and upgrade for the sake of it" attitude, and like me, brake away from the GUI dependency.
If you want an old computer, run an old OS. For example, there's nothing that says you can't get a pentium 100 (about the lowest common denominator of 'computer' these days - as opposed to 'historical novelty') and run an old version of debian/RH/ or windows NT 4 if you're that way inclined on it.
In fact, I would like to challenge the Fedora team to make a distro that would work on the specs I have mentioned above as THAT WOULD be a kick in the pants for mickysoft <grin>. /end rant/
Actually I think you'll find that 'Mickysoft' don't give a flying f__k about your old pentium 100/486. They're out to sell software, and what sells software is people wanting something new and flash and useful which they didn't have before. People buy new PC's because they want something which their old PC didn't give them - the ability to do some new task (like play games, or support larger hard drives/more drives/more ram, etc), or some existing task faster than what they had. Or just because their old PC is broken. They throw old PC's away, or off the roof at parties, or deal to them with a sledgehammer. The linux distro community is also out to sell software. They don't charge for it, but the end goal is the same - to get their particular product deployed on some end user's computer. Aiming your target market at things which people are putting in the bin is - no matter which way you look at it - stupid. There, I feel satisfied that I have fed the troll. </endrant> :-) -- Orion ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.