If it's a 98-ish spec box (circa 400MHz-1GHz, up to 256MB memory) then Windows 2000 will make a better choice. I assume you need Windows for some game software or suchlike.
If you don't, then http://www.ubuntu.com is your answer.
time to retire Win98, surely.
If it's a 98-ish spec box (circa 400MHz-1GHz, up to 256MB memory) then Windows 2000 will make a better choice. I assume you need Windows for some game software or suchlike.
If you don't, then http://www.ubuntu.com is your answer. |
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+5, Informative.
Windows 2000 will run just fine in 128Mb, FWIW.
Wade. "Ah -- I take it the doorbell doesn't work?" |
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Nope
The box is a 600 MHz Pentium III with 256 Meg RAM. It has all of the patches and security updates for Win98 SE. Almost all of the software has been removed so that this is nothing more than a Internet browser machine - no MS Office, no games, no useless apps, etc.
Since I repaired this on a visit to my family, and now I'm heading out the door for the airport and a return flight to my job 1000 miles away, at least it works for now. A new machine and/or a new operating system will be put off to a future date, which will not occur until I receive employment in the metro area where the house resides. And in today's economy, that probably won't happen for at least another year. "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow |
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Ubuntu is not the answer
source: http://www.ubuntu.co.../desktop/features Not as bad as the minimum system requirements for WinXP or Vista, but it appears that Ubuntu is also not immune to hardware creep. "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow |
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Re: Ubuntu is not the answer
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Fucking Linksys
- (lincoln)
- (8)
- June 12, 2009, 11:32:59 AM EDT
Re: Fucking Linksys
- (Andrew Grygus)
- June 12, 2009, 01:04:36 PM EDT
time to retire Win98, surely.
- (pwhysall)
- (4)
- June 14, 2009, 03:10:17 AM EDT
+5, Informative.
- (static)
- June 14, 2009, 08:29:51 PM EDT
Nope
- (lincoln)
- June 15, 2009, 04:48:23 PM EDT
Ubuntu is not the answer
- (lincoln)
- (1)
- June 16, 2009, 10:27:57 PM EDT
Re: Ubuntu is not the answer
- (kj3n)
- July 6, 2009, 11:22:23 PM EDT
It's always hard to diagnose things over the phone.
- (Another Scott)
- June 14, 2009, 11:05:25 AM EDT
Re: Fucking Linksys
- (Nightowl)
- Sept. 10, 2009, 01:39:27 PM EDT
