On 03/10/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard Kweskin</b> <<a href="mailto:rkwesk@hellug.gr">rkwesk@hellug.gr</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Speaking for myself, I enjoy trying to work on both. However, our project is limited in its resources and thus, regretfully, I concede that we need to focus on the 4/5/6 yr old hardware.</blockquote><div><br>Another related point - defective 4/5/6 year old hardware can in all probability be be patched up with modern components. As the hardware becomes older this gets more problematical.
<br></div><br>I have a ten - year old Dell Pentium Pro machine sitting in the corner of the basement as a headless print server. The last time I replaced the hard drive, about the only one the bios would recognise was a Maxtor. Then the CD-ROM drive went paws up, and although the replacement will read a CD, it won't act as a boot device. The machine is running Debian at the moment, as the Debian boot floppy and install from network proved the course of least resistance...
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