[Novalug] Older PCs get no respect!

[Alan McConnell]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:40:16AM -0400, Maxwell Spangler wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Alan McConnell wrote:
> 
> > 	Right!  and this tendency is _wrong_.  IMHO.  I have tried
> > 	Ubuntu on my home machine, which isn't especially antique,
> > 	about five years old, and the disk couldn't find my mouse!
> > 	which is a perfectly good COM 1(excuse me!  /dev/ttyS0 <G>)
> > 	trackball.
> > How are we going to Save the Earth(TM) if our favorite OS doesn't
> > run on older, less favored, machines???
> 
> If you can't be bothered to upgrade your hardware, why are you bothering to 
> upgrade your software?  
	Uncle Max, what are you talking about?  the point is: why the
	necessity to replace perfectly good hardware?

> You would have plenty of sympathy from us if your hardware
> worked fine but the software 'expired' and decided to stop
> working forcing you to upgrade and move on but that's not the
> case.
	Excuse me.  That's exactly the case.  And I'm not asking for
	"sympathy" -- whatever that might represent -- I'm asking that
	Linux people work to prevent the throwing away of perfectly
	good machines.  Which mine is.

Best wishes,

Alan

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