If you've got a more capable machine to hang it off then it might be a good opportunity to give LTSP a go.<div><br></div><div>Jon<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/1/2 Mo Awkati <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mawkati@yahoo.co.uk">mawkati@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#ff0000"><div><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Hi Folk<br>
<br>My father-in-law has an old Linux box that I put together a few years ago, I think the spec as below<br><br>AMD Duron 750 MHz <br>Gigabyte Motherboard <br>256 MB memory<br>CD-RW drive<br><br>Currently running an old SUSE distro, not sure of version but old enough that I know is no longer supported.<br>
<br>Any suggestions as to what I can do with it other than sending it to its fate at a South Staffs recycling container?<br><br>I could upgrade the motherboard </span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">( its an ATX motherboard)</span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">, processor and/or graphics card ( I might have one of these spare I think its Nvidia or ATI not sure). But I was thinking along the lines of what can I do with it
as it stands without incurring expense. <br><br>I could install, I suppose, a lightweight Linux distro like Puppy Linux or Mint.<br><br><br>Mo<br><br><br><br><br><br><br></span></div>
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