For 10 years I had a Pentium 75 with 40M RAM as my main personal home file server running Red Hat Linux (pre-Fedora and Enterprise). Worked flawlessly until last fall when something with an extension board flaked. Still have it - collecting dust at the moment... -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 4:30 PM To: TCLUG Mailing List Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Linux bloatware: trying too hard to be like Microsoft? I still use a couple of Linux boxen that are 10+ years old now as my everyday workstations. Debian on both of them. Amazing how Enlightenment has gone from a 'massive and heavyweight bloatware' to 'lean' by comparison to the new window managers/desktop environments. The limiting factor now is basically the web. Websites have become so bloated with massive Flash animations and shoddy javascript that some of them can bring your box to a crawl. Youtube is now the reason why I'm trying to scrape together money for a new computer... 1.1GHz K7 with 1.25GB RAM is just not up to the task of youtube anymore. (and Facebook and Gmail have their bad days as well). -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list