[lubuntu-users] Using Pentium 3 Machines on Lubuntu--posting from "the top"--ode to PPC <snif>

[Aere Greenway]

On 05/14/2017 10:46 AM, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
> top posting, for clarity and relaxation . . . .
>
> I am reminded of the trials and tribulations of "PPC" by this thread, 
> we tried to keep what was/is functioning hardware viable by using 
> software that was "lighter" and "lighter" . . . the problem with 
> "technology" is that it's "like a shark, it has to move 'forward' or 
> die . . ." . . . and hardware generally isn't able to "move forward" 
> beyond a certain dollar driven point, i.e., it's cheaper to buy new 
> than to keep upgrading the "old."
>
> And, so people and the devs, move on to other things.  Just like the 
> motorola cpu driving PPC units, "pentium 3" is now or soon to be, "not 
> supported" by the software in all likelihood, even Lu probably isn't 
> considering that cpu as being "viable" . . . and, also as I discovered 
> watching two or three of my PPC machines slowly drop out of linux 
> support due to lack of cpu speed and RAM to meet the minimum specs . . 
> . browsers and/or the internet seem to "need" at least 2 GB of RAM to 
> do all the many tasks that the web demands . . . .  My iBook G4 
> running Lu 16.04 PPC with 933MHz cpu and 612 MB RAM is just 
> "befuddled" by trying to get around in any available browser--if all I 
> wanted to do was word processing it would be fine.  If, while doing 
> such writing, I would want to "check my email" using gmail via 
> browser, that becomes a study in slo-mo frustration.
>
> On the other hand, the recently deceased PowerMac with an upgraded cpu 
> and maxed out at 2GB RAM . . . could do a reasonable job as doing 
> basic online tasks--but, the hardware finally fizzled . . . which 
> seems to be the other problem with pushing old hardware . . . it 
> breaks at some point.
>
> I'd say that obviously you are enjoying keeping your "old" hardware 
> going by finding ways to do what newer tech does with ease . . . at 
> some point either Lu will "drop" support or drivers for Pentium3, or 
> the 512MB RAM will just not have the juice to do anything . . . and, 
> the machines will just have one function--your music endeavors . . . 
> until the "end of its days" and the mobo wheezes it's last sound byte 
> . . . .  : - 0
>
> Sayonara PPC, we hardly knew ye . . . .
>
> F
> On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 5:00 AM, 
> <lubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com 
> <mailto:lubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com>> wrote:
>
>     Using Pentium 3 Machines on Lubuntu
>
>
>
Fritz:

Thank you for your well written and interesting response.

I sympathize with your viewpoint.

In writing my original e-mail of the stream, I wasn't asking that 
Pentium 3 machines again be fully supported, though I do (as you) lament 
their demise.

I was just glad to report how I had come up with a rather different way 
of making it work for me, and that it did work as a music workstation.

I do lament the coming demise of all 32-bit machines, but I will move 
on, when it is necessary to do so.

I will be putting out (sometime this year) a KeyMusician Newsletter 
article an rescuing older machines, using them as musical instruments.

-- 
Sincerely,
Aere

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