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 do the same thing all the time. i am a packrat, and always have plenty of junkers (i moved recently, and counted 18 cases. more amazingly, i moved them with me).
as many have said, RAM is the most important issue. i recently set up a minimal Mandrake on a P2-450/256 meg of ram. KDE is a slug, but fluxbox is great. i fix these up and give them away.
a very important thing to remember, for those that won't have broadband? on dialup the accursed Winmodem problem *is* getting better, but it is still a hassle. a much better solution is to look on Ebay, there are literally hundreds of brand-new external 56k modems that work perfectly and very easily on Linux. i got one new, recently for $5. just run KPPP and fill in the blanks.