HOW-TO: Giving up Ubuntu - a last word

[David Strauss]

On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 20:23 +0000, Michael Shergold wrote:
> Two weeks ago I started this thread with a bit of explanation and 
> background. Thanks for all your replies and comments and hopefully 
> eventually things will be better, though I suspect when that day arrives 
> many of you will be as unhappy with that distro or .org as you seem to be 
> with Microsoft today.  I notice that there is quite a lot of anti-MS 
> sentiment on show.
> I had originally been trying to set up an elderly desktop for my daughter's 
> home use and a respected younger friend had suggested that Linux would be 
> an ideal method of breathing life into old 386 hardware.

Don't expect to run much of anything on a 386 (especially SX) system
other than DOS, Windows 3.1 or an equally old flavor of Linux. Plus, the
outcome doesn't justify the time. Pentium III computers aren't hard to
find or expensive (and they run Ubuntu just fine).

-- 
David Strauss <ubuntu at david.endeavorcomputing.com>