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Kai Hendry wrote:
On ti, touko 28, 2002 at 09:56:17 +0100, jody salt wrote:I just got second hand pc (a p200 with 320 (I think) of ram) which I want to run X-windows on, I have320 RAM? A P200 is quite slow for running X. I hate seeing novices recycling machines with linux and putting X on it. New machines are really quite cheap. IMO it puts Linux in a bad light when people see something like X+KDE for the first time on a struggling pentium.
I too think that the recycling old machine stuff is a bad move. Those who said you could recycle old machines originally meant as mail servers, DNS servers, file servers, that sort of thing.
Win95 is honestly better. :/
No it isn't. I have P200 equivalent machine (128MB of memory), and it runs KDE 1 fine, I wouldn't want KDE 2 on it I suspect, but other lighterweight Window managers should be fine. A case of circa 95/98 OSes on circa 95/98 machines. This machine is actually the minimum spec to run Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server, but I decided Linux was more advanced, and less resource hungry, and less buggy after I tried Advanced Server. Mind W2K was a lot better than Win95/98/NT4.
Old machines are great for testing out the dark(console) side of linux. mutt, irssi, vim and various services. :)
You can invert the console screen colours if it is too dark ;) No need to stick with green on black either these days, but it is traditional. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.