Got an OOLLLDDD laptop

[BrianG]

I am typing this from said crappy laptop running Debian Linux with Gnome desktop. As I sit here, my RAM usage is at 94MB. When running XP, I was sitting at over 200MB with nothing running (except background stuff like AV).

I know this isn't worth anything, but I just hate throwing stuff away when it works perfectly fine.

This OS works pretty good all in all. Not having used linux in over 5 years (and even then it was brief), I was able to install Firefox and update the Flash plugin pretty easily. The installation was neat though; the install disk was a 170MB ISO which contained the minimal install, then downloaded the packages to install on the fly (before the OS was even installed). I'm currently using a little over 3GB of HDD space and that's with open office installed along with a bunch of other apps I haven't even looked at yet.

So see? An old piece of garbage has a little life in it yet!

I could still use more memory, but it's not critical. I could also use a new battery; old one was completely dead. So, I have to keep it plugged in all the time, and the clock resets on every reboot. Still, it was an interesting project. Aside from the age, this thing looks brand new.