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On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Bale, Dan wrote: > capacity for your 436? Is there *any* OS upgrade out there (all > vendors) that does *not* take more resources to operate than the > previous levels? *cough* linux *cough* Seriously, I'm running new linux releases on old hardware that doesn't seem to need upgrading. But there are other things that demand better hardware. I like mozilla so much that I went and got more ram so that it would run better. My old 486 laptop doesn't have enough disk for glibc-2.x so it is still at libc-5. Gnome and KDE require more disk/memory but the OS (kernel, C libraries - what I consider the OS) run just as well on new as old hardware. All my machines run bleeding edge kernels (except the laptop - I get tired of waiting for the compile to finish) and recent C libraries, and my newest machines were obtained when Pentium 233 MHz were the latest in processor technology. James Rich james@eaerich.com
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