[Novalug] Older PCs get no respect!

[Beartooth]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Maxwell Spangler wrote:


> If you can't be bothered to upgrade your hardware, why are you 
> bothering to upgrade your software?
>
> Just load a version of Linux that in software quality matches 
> the hardware quality of your old equipment and enjoy it.
>
> 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.

 	I realize those remarks were not directed to me, but they 
apply.

 	In the case of the friend on behalf of whom I originally 
asked, he upgraded long since -- as have I. But the old hardware 
does still run, albeit glacially.

 	I have a special purpose for getting some use out of that 
fact, and so does he.

 	I use my oldy moldy for testing/learning word processors; 
he put two thoughts together.

 	His first thought is some use I disremember -- firewall, 
printserver, some such; his second is, as I said at first, that 
this crazy retiree he knows tells him such machines run linux 
better than they do windows. So I'm trying to make good on my 
vaunt -- in between trips to the senectologists, the firing 
range, and other errands.

 	I've currently managed once again, somewhat to my 
surprise, to get into what the compaq uses for a BIOS -- and am 
trying to get back to the questions and advice I've had so far. 
Stay tuned. TIA!
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Double Retiree,
Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User, with precious 
(very precious) little idea where up is.