[NMLUG] PC Resurrection with Debian

[havoc at harrisdev.com (havoc)]

Tim, what desktop did you end up using?

jody

Tim Emerick wrote:
> I ran into this article last month but just recently tried it.  I was utterly
> amazed that my old AMD K6-2/400 with 128megs ram and a 4 gig HD sprung right
> back to life.  I had tried installing X with both KDE and GNOME only to be
> sorely disappointed in the video performance.  I had even tried Ubuntu on
> this old machine because I had heard that Ubuntu worked well on older
> hardware.
> 
> Having come from MS Windows I really enjoyed the inclusion of classic MS
> keys.  alt-tab to switch between running applications, ctrl-c and ctrl-v to
> copy/paste and it even worked between applications.
> 
> Hope someone can benefit from this and fire-up that old machine sitting in
> their garage.
> 
> http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=9973
> 
> Tim


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