On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 09:48:29AM +0000, Colin Hards wrote:
No one has commented on the spec of these machines. I read Linux is happy to operate on old computers but is this really so? Given the tasks I?ve suggested, what is the minimum spec that is worthwhile for this idea?
pentium and above is acceptable, if you are doing gui things then pentium 133 upwards probably a minimum of 64MB ram. If you are just playing around with networking and other low intensity things then 486 is fine but probably a minimum of 16Mb is the real final limit. Anyhow any computer is better than no computer imho, the old clunky ones can be superseded by newer ones as and when (now i think of it i may have an amd k6-2 266+motherboard somewhere and i have just realised that of course i now have a spare case! (no ram or disk or CD etc.)
Anyhow if we do end up with more kit than we can use can we find a group who can do something useful with it (send them off for either spares or one of those schemes that send the old kit off to africa?)
Adam