Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!

[lproven]

Last weekend, I gave away an old Digital Audio Mac G4. Yesterday, after weeks of missing one another, a lady from Freecycle took away an old Gateway Pentium/150 which I'd done up. Another chap came round and collected an old AMD motherboard and an AthlonXP 2200+ CPU I had lying around, and I delivered jamesb's old PC, restored, refurbished and installed

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[camies]

Good old Bikefix. I was in there the other day, M. was considering either Birdy or Brompton but she has I think decided to stick with her current non-folder. The weight of the Brompton seems to be an issue, though I don't carry mine anywhere far and I think most people don't.

[lproven]

It must be said, they do pretty much always come through in the end!

It's true I wouldn't want to carry a folded folder far. I leave the front wheel of the Birdy unfolded and just wheel it along... That's a bit more doable but more than a hundred metres or so becomes a real chore.

[robthefish]

Respect for all your "renovating and rehoming" of computers.

[lproven]

Ta!

But I realised later on, when I got home, that surely one of them was brisingamen's old 486/100, which was meant to be your Linux machine... :¬(

I let you both down there and I really feel bad about it.

[robthefish]

Hey, don't feel bad about that. That feels like a whole other life away. So much has changed for and in me since then.

Much more importantly is that my mini-tower PC is now about 8 years old and is beginning to struggle with XP. Maybe that would be a good candidate for a compact Linux distro (I'll come to you later with its spec and recommendations for which distro to install.

My PC will become available when I make it to my Parents' to pick up an XP laptop which is only a couple of years old.

This will also free up another (older) laptop I was given, which I would like to donate to your collection for renovation and 're-homing' if i) I can get it to you and ii) it would be any use.

This is all on hold until I pick up the XP laptop.
I just didn't want you to worry on my account :-)

[lproven]

Cheers, Rob. Good of you to say so!

Sorry not to see you at Eastercon, BTW.

Re rehoming: I am not planning on doing any more of that, I'm afraid. I suggest Freecycle from now on!

As for a Linux machine, well, anything that will run XP remotely usably will run Ubuntu, probably very well. TBH all the low-end distros are currently rather compromised & I wouldn't bother, not for a general-purpose desktop.

[lproven]

Oh please do!