[Coco] Keeping current... ????

[Dan Olson]

> 4400.  And they did a fine job with Mozilla 1.0 and OpenOffice.org 1.0.
> Now I've got an Athlon 3000XP+ that I'm dedicating to flight sim games,
> an Athlon 1800XP+ that I'm using for other Windows 2K stuff, and I've
> moved the K6/2-450 to the main Linux workstation, to replace the older
> 200MHz motherboard that had been running RH8 fairly capably.  I want
> that computer to do word processing, web browsing, email, occasional
> light GIMP work, and some fiddling in Perl and C.  It should easily be
> up to that task, at least to my standards.  There's no reason why a
> computer like that, which hasn't yet begun to rust or break down, should
> be incapable of doing those things -- even with a GUI.  I'd like to move

That's what burns me the most!  I have used 486 and Pentium machines in 
the past with a web browser and mail reader, running Linux, and I don't 
see why a newer machine, say a PII with 128M of ram, shouldn't be overkill 
for looking at web pages or reading e-mail.  I probably should try DSL 
(Damn Small Linux) in the near future, it's probably my best bet.  I've 
even got a 386 that I used as an Xterminal for the longest time, it was a 
little slow loading up but ran great once it got going.  I feal like my 
choices anymore are all or nothing; either I need a huge hard drive, lots 
or RAM, and the latest Linux, or I need something that's old and lacks 
programs (such as Firefox) just to get it running on my hardware.

 	Dan