[inbox] Re: Meeting Time?

[Cyber Source]

John Nichel wrote:

> 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.
>
yes I do the same, lately been making routers out of them old boxes. I 
wouldn't think about giving an old box to my mom though ;), or any 
newbie. I'm assuming Greg's mom is a newbie. Newbie's coupled with old 
slow boxes usually frustrate them right back to winblows.....

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