Fragile? This thing could stop a 9mm. I had a pile left when I retired, every time corp. gave me a new I one threw old one in a closet, been refreshing and distributing them to young family who don't know the difference recently. If you have no expectations it's fast right? Was at sis-in-law's and a niece was dragging a dell latitude around by the external scsi cable, (mom removed, set aside hard drive and battery), like a fischer-price toy, laughed til I cried, so cute. Got an ancient guy I don't even know with COPD across the road chained to an oxygen bottle, met his sister, using Windows his nephew isn't supporting on a pc still running 7 and won't make it to 10, should have seen his face when a stranger knocked on the door and handed him a Dell E6400t fully loaded with FC36 ready to boot and finish in its original case. Great way to make friends too. Can't believe how fast he caught on, wish I could have hired him as an admin 30 years ago.

On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 11:02 PM Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
Quoting Linus Sphinx (sphinxtar@gmail.com):

> After an all night session of drunken research I've come to the conclusion
> there are no 32 bit linux distros left that will fit on a CD-R and actually
> install a desktop, hell DVD-R either. Was going to give my faithful old
> Dell i486 laptop to a neighbor kid to play with but I think it's dead Jim.
> Suggestions?

Yes.

Note the year, and recycle them.

I could list all the reasons why trying to keep such ridiculously old
and fragile computers going is a bad idea, but most should be obvious.

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