On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, SOTL wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 December 2005 08:24 am, steve szmidt wrote:
> > On Tuesday 06 December 2005 08:00, SOTL wrote:
> > > The issue is not GUI but drivers. Maybe you can not recall mode lines in
> > > screen drivers. I can. And, my response to such is to spend the $50 to
> > > $100 required for more modern equipment than 486.
> >
> > The point was not to try to force anything on anyone but that you can do it
> > fairly simply. New drivers does not mean the old ones are thrown away. Just
> > that new ones are added. Certain distro's do compile for 586 and up, but
> > it's not that hard to find one that isn't. Recompiling a kernel seems more
> > daunting than it really is. Anyway, again my point was simply that if you
> > have a 486 it can be put to use as a f/w.
>
> Making the equation that time is money then the question to me is not can I do
> it but how much is it going to cost.
>
> Do I really want to spend 10 or 20 hours installing Linux in an older computer
> just so I can brag that I saved $50 to $100 in equipment cost while spending
> $1000 in labor cost? I personally think this is a poor trade but then that is
> me.
I don't see why an older machine would take any longer to set up than a
newer machine, assuming the "older" machine is sufficiently recent that much
of its hardware is PnP. I mean, one driver takes as long as anther to haul
off the CD. These aren't S-100 or NuBus machines being talked about, after
all.
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