Linked by Richard White on Tue 15th Mar 2005 11:21 UTC
My basement is like a mortuary with the remains of computers all lying in state, waiting and hoping for a new lease on life. But what is there to do with the K6s, the Celerons, and Pentiums of the past. It seems nothing short of a miracle would bring these ghosts back to life.
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I've got a Pentium 233 which has been running as a firewall box and fileserver using Debian since 1999. It has been upgraded from Slink to Potato to Woody with very few hassles, and has been simply done its job without fail.
The machine is still being used occasonally for quick web browsing, and I have to repeat what the others have said about RAM: the more the better with X11. The machine originally had 32MB and thrashed quite a bit, then with 48MB it was pretty good. Now that it has 128MB, it runs great (with IceWM and Opera).
In fact, it's amazing how little difference there is between the Pentium 233 and my Athlon 2400+ for basic tasks such as web browsing, MP3 playing and reading email.