On 01/08/2011 23:16, William "Chops" Westfield wrote:
> 4) I'd rather see a project to better support 'something' on all those
> legacy systems (desktops, cell phones, infrastructure, even appliances
> and toys) that currently end up in landfills.  Seems that a 1GB 1GHz
> Pentium3 x86 system is essentially "trash", but is still more likely
> to be useful than that 256MB 700Mhz ARM.  The software effort isn't
> any larger for legacy exiting HW than it is for new, unique HW.
> Probably less, if you can run old software.  (Of course, shipping and
> power costs become relevant as well.  Maybe.)

The previous and current Ubuntu run not badly on my Jan 2000  PIII=20
Mobile 450MHz 1400 x1050 laptop. I think it only has 256M RAM. But still=20
not as well as NT4.0 ran on it. We used to have NT 4.0 Server on 64M RAM=20
and I remember RH6.0 running on 32M RAM on P90. But those things =20
have/had  HDDs.







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