More mileage from an ancient machine

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 04:12 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 30/06/07, Peter N Spotts <pspotts at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > A friend of mine is turning over to a friend of hers a 1998 Dell
> > Inspiron 3200 with an XGA color monitor and MMX "technology" -- my
> > friend wasn't sure whether the processor was 166, 200, or 233 Mhz.
> 
> It's a bit too low-end for Ubuntu. You could try Puppy Linux or DamnSmallLinux.
> 
> I recently wrote an article on this that you may find useful:
> http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40532
> 
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Under the circumstances, does this mean I have to shut down my 266mhz
units with 256 mb ram running ubuntu 6.06 now? I have been using Ubuntu
since May of 2005, and since my 400 Mhz motherboard blew itself up, I am
now running these old and slow units until I get to the city to buy a
new one. In the mean time, it's a little slower, and I can't really
multitask this, but, I think it is running Ubuntu with Gnome, OpenOffice
2.0, and all the bells and whistles it comes with. Downloading is a
challenge, though.

Charlie
registered linux user #425914