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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Quote Article : I thought of providing computers for, shall we say, the economically disadvantaged. These would be plain-Jane, vanilla boxes, simple to use and easy to maintain, with sufficient power for surfing, email reading, authoring documents and spreadsheets, and listening to the occasional tune.
While I applaud the spirit behind this, I wonder if the intended user base will have the technical know how to update/maintain these boxes.
Or will the included setup be so complete as to make the end user's software needs minimal?
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I'm in the process of being about to give a PIII 750/512 to some friends of mine, and though *very* tempted throw something like Lindows of Xandros on it, in the end I voted for W98se (they'll get my old disks) because they're not that computer savvy, know how W95 works, and if I can put a older firewall, Firefox/Opera, and SpyBot, it should keep some of the headaches minimised.