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I just joined as well as we're about the same age. More experience with hardware than software. Just build a new machine with Mint 18.1 and love it. The machine it replaced is 17 years old and running XP. Perhaps PuppyLinux should replace XP...
I just joined as well as we're about the same age. More experience with hardware than software. Just build a new machine with Mint 18.1 and love it. The machine it replaced is 17 years old and running XP. Perhaps PuppyLinux should replace XP...
Old machine - 32-bit 2GHz single-core AMD w/8G RAM. A real screamer in its day.
New machine - Asus 990FX R2.0 with AMD FX 8350 8-core, 4GHz (water cooled), 32G RAM, SSD for Mint 18.1 and two 2TB enterprise RAID10 drives for file storage.
I just joined as well as we're about the same age. More experience with hardware than software. Just build a new machine with Mint 18.1 and love it. The machine it replaced is 17 years old and running XP. Perhaps PuppyLinux should replace XP...
Hello chaps. I have been directed to introduce myself before I can answer someone's question! So, here I am, seventy, bald and hailing from the People's' Republic of Ramsbottom. I am writing this on a 2005 HP desktop running Ubuntu 16.04.
I would suggest that you could keep your old XP machine in service with SolusOS. I've just put Solus onto a USB stick (using the Windows programme from 'pendrivelinux.com' and tried it on my laptop. It has everything built into it and just works 'out of the box'. Give it a try!
Hello chaps. I have been directed to introduce myself before I can answer someone's question! So, here I am, seventy, bald and hailing from the People's' Republic of Ramsbottom.
Hello and welcome. Pretty socialistic there, I take it?
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