Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 70.14.222.187]
on February 13, 2008 07:19 PM
Several years ago I received an old computer from my Dad. His office had delegated it to the closet since it ran so slow compared to newer machines. I'm still using it. The only changes I made were to add a larger hard drive, an old Creative Labs sound card I had laying around, an el cheapo TV card (the cheapest one I found a few years ago- Hauppage not sure of the model anymore; it just works perfect), and I replaced the CD drive a year or two ago when the original died. I left the original 10G HD in place and added a 70G hard drive out of a dead computer. Believe it or not, this very minimal system works perfectly. It is slow to start almost all applications, but once they are started, you really don't notice the difference. This computer was resurrected from the trash bin into a working and useful system.
Specs:
CPU: 500MHz Celeron
RAM: 128 M
Integrated Video; won't run Compiz, but drives a 20" CRT monitor wonderfully.
I was using it as a file server, but now it is used more for TV watching than anything else. It is too slow to record, but viewing is perfect.
I now get all the old computers and put linux on them and then donate them to people that can't afford new ones.
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Re: Moving my mother over to Linux
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 70.14.222.187] on February 13, 2008 07:19 PMSpecs:
CPU: 500MHz Celeron
RAM: 128 M
Integrated Video; won't run Compiz, but drives a 20" CRT monitor wonderfully.
I was using it as a file server, but now it is used more for TV watching than anything else. It is too slow to record, but viewing is perfect.
I now get all the old computers and put linux on them and then donate them to people that can't afford new ones.
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