[inbox] Re: Meeting Time?

[John Nichel]

Cyber Source wrote:
> Greg Neumann wrote:
> 
>> What's the "minimum" system requirements for that? I have an old P-II 
>> 233 I'm trying to get fixed up for my mom. Works great except for 
>> connecting to the internet. :-(
>>
>> Cyber Source wrote:
>>
>>> We have our "tweaked" FC3 on a hard drive that we dump to other 
>>> drives, then customize for each respective user from there. We might 
>>> be able to bring the box and then show and do a dump to a hard drive 
>>> of yours if you like.
>>>
> Not a good candidate. Interesting how people are always trying to put 
> Linux on the old "nobody want's" anymore boxes (not that that's what 
> your doing). Linux today deserves the best box in the house, and for 
> many, many, many good reasons. Here is a link to the FC3 Release notes 
> showing hardware requirements, etc.
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc3/x86/
> 

Ah, but Linux breaths new life into those old boxes.  Granted, I do run 
it on my 'best' boxes, but inbetween work and home, I have old boxes 
(<500Mhz) set up to do a variety of things...print servers, file 
servers, router/firewall, etc.

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John C. Nichel
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