help

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Mon, 4/13/09, Steve Reilly <sfreilly at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> From: Steve Reilly <sfreilly at roadrunner.com>
> Subject: Re: help
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Monday, April 13, 2009, 6:29 PM
> Amedee Van Gasse (ubuntu) wrote:
> 
> > 
> > But still I don't know any good reason why someone
> would install a 4
> > year old version of Ubuntu on a 10 year old desktop
> pc, if a current
> > version of Ubuntu is just as good.
> > 
> 
> agreed, i cant say for 9.04 but 8.04 runs fine on several
> "ex" win 98
> computers ive given away over the last several months.  had
> to upgrade
> the ram from 128 to 256, mind you they arent smokin fast,
> but fine for
> web surfing, open office, etc.  one of them i threw a 128mb
> nvidia card
> in, and runs any linux 3d game you can throw at it.  havent
> had 1 call
> from anyone about i cant run this, or i cant open that. in
> fact theyre
> all pretty impressed that they were immune from the lastest
> windows
> nonsense viruses and worms about lately.
> 
> 
My ditto also. Have run hardy on PII and PIII machines very well with 384 GB Ram amd 8 GB HDDs.

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net