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 run Windows 2000, Office 2000, anti-virus and free firefall software on a ~500mhz computer at home. Without any problems. Note that I have Firefox running efficiently, and I don't need Thunderbird with gmail (who needs email software? I don't understand). The only problem my computer has is with ESPN.com (for obvious reasons, I have all the multimedia browsing stuff) and sometimes Picasa. I'll switch to Linux soon because Win2k isn't getting any newer. Re-installing Windows was a 3-hour pain (with all the updates, saying okay to my free firewall software, rebooting, etc.), and a dangerous one (should have unplugged my ethernet, duh!)- I don't intend to do that again. I'm glad this 'guide' was posted, because I've been trying to figure out a way to install a minimal Linux setup on my old machine- but the initial learning curve for package management is steep and bewildering. My old RH9 disc isn't helping, I'll tell you that. Finally, simple instructions to follow.