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[keesan AT SDF.ORG]

> 16 ** 2011 . 2:25 ****** Faul <xfaulsz AT gmail.com> ***:
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>> 2011/7/15 <keesan AT sdf.org>
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>> >there still a lot of 100MHz computers in use where you live?
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The Cyrillic you used in this email is readable until I do a reply and then
it turns into asterisks - please go back to UTF-8.
Translation:  Excuse me for omitting a question.  Such computers are being
disposed of by people, since you can't install Vista or 7 on them.  But
you can still find enthusiasts, although extremely few.  Everyone's
chasing gigabytes and gigahertzes and the like, Microsoft's to blame here
-- the mover of progress ;=)  I feel bad for the old hulks showing up in
dumps, they could still be used, if only people stopped fantasizing, and
find many applications.

My response:  Most people want to use computers online with graphical
browsers and watch Youtube, which requires a minimum of 600MHz (still
jerky).  I have been setting up and giving away 1GHz computers recently,
about ten years old, which do all of what most people want, with a newer
version of linux (Puppy Linux) and at least 256MB memory, but personally I
still use Basiclinux unless I need flash video, since recent versions of
flash require GTK2 which BL does not support.  Opera 9.64 and Seamonkey
1.1.19 do work in BL, but not at all sites.