On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:39:06 -0700, dapunka <dapunka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Jul 24, 4:42 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>> ____/ John Locke on Tuesday 24 July 2007 02:30 : \____
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>> > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:44:32 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>> >> Linux For An Old Laptop
>>
>> >> | I have such a machine (Pentium 266 MMX, 80 MB RAM, 4 GB HD) which still
>> >> | sports a "Designed for Windows 95" sticker.
>>
>> > This is becoming more and more prevalent. I wonder just how many old
>> > PCs have been raised from the dead or saved from recycle because of the
>> > rise of Linux and the fall of Vista ?
>>
>> Did Vista ever fall? When did it rise?
>
>A while ago I was given an old laptop - I think it had Pentium 3, its
>RAM was 128MB and the HDD was 6 whole GB! Whoo! It sported a "made
>for Windows 98" badge - true cutting edge tech, right?
>
>Anyway, I wiped the hard disk, and installed Ubuntu Breezy (the
>current version at the time). And okay, some apps (OOo especially)
>crawled or just repeadedly crashed. So I installed the xubuntu-
>desktop, used abiword for my word processing chores, and the machine
>fared fine til I dropped a cup of coffee on it.
>
>For some people, whose main use for a PC is web browsing, email and
>looking at photos, this laptop setup would be fine. And now, with
>Vista out there, much snazzier boxes are now deemed by some to be
>"past it". Such machines can be de-Windowfied, a Linux OS instaled,
>and they will serve a whole class of computer user for a long time to
>come.
>
Yes. I'm hearing about this more and more. Microsoft didn't expect a surge of
revitalized PCs fueled by Linux. This could really have an impact on
Microsoft software sales.
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