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 have a PIII550/512 box for 5 years now, and run Fedora Core 3 with XFCE. The real magic behind it is that you can have 2005 software on 2000 hardware: Win2000 just couldn't do for me, and I never tried WinXP (I already became a linux guy at the time).
I am now thinking to switch to a AMD64 system, but in the end I don't need it: to read osnews in the morning this is more than enough.
As for the junk syndrome: I like too crawling those fairs of old hardware, but the fact is (and eBay is following) that the prices are going too high. When I see a 370 or Slot1 motherboard for 50$, I just think there's something wrong. For that money you can get a fully integrated Sempron MoBo: another 30$ for the CPU and you're all set.
If you have all the parts to build a spare system then it is a way to go, but spending more money on these things is just not wise enough, for me.
As for resurrecting PCs: I have installed Debian on a PI200/64 and it runs just fine with IceWM+Opera.