Silly question

Silly question

Posted Feb 25, 2006 3:34 UTC (Sat) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)
In reply to: Silly question by foo-bar
Parent article: Linux distros for older hardware (Linux.com)

Sadly, this isn't always something in your control. For example I use an old Ultra 10 at work. It's old and slow, but it's the only dedicated Linux desktop I have (primary desktops have to run Windows far various annoying reasons). I can't justify a purchase of another system just so I can have Linux running full-time. Thankfully I can dual boot, use cygwin, and use virtual systems on my Windows system -- but it's just not the same.

And yes, I've noticed that Netscape 4.x is many times faster than the newer browsers -- and only slightly more crash-prone. But I try not to use it for any external sites because it is a huge security problem.

I also noticed that the Adaptech SCSI driver only works for a few hundred MB of data before crashing 2.4 UltraSPARC kernels. :)

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