[Lula] Old Distros - Use or Donate?

[Steve]

On Sunday 17 September 2006 11:47 am, thom irwin wrote:
> An early whiff of the existence of Linux led me to pick up several old
> distros ('97&'98 Comdex) of Suse 5.3 and TurboLinux 3.0 and I'm not sure
> why or how a boxed set of Red Hat 5.2 and Power Tools for Linux.
>
> I also have an old PII dual processor 450 mhz PC with 512gb ram and some
> scavenged 20GB Raptor hdds.
>
> Would there be any point in trying to build a file server or web server
> with this stuff?
> Has Linux morphed sufficiently over the years so that working like this
> stuff would be like
> using Win 3.1 instead of XP or whatever MS uses for servers today?

Yes.  Why not download the current debian, if you want to build a server?  
Then buy *The Linux Cookbook* by Carla Schroeder, and you're in fat city.

>
> The PC works ok with XP. Or Ubuntu (I just haven't gotten around to trying
> FreeSpire). If the Software is obsolete is there anywhere that would
> appreciate a donation of same?

-- 
Steve Glasser
steve at fpig.net
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