Hello John,

  JC> ...if it's just email and light surfing linux on your
    > old box will work. I run Ubuntu on a PIII 866 with 768
    > megs ram and can even run flash video.

    Right, but 866 MHz is significantly faster than 500 MHz
and it would have cost me US$ 90 to upgrade to 768M RAM, so I decided
instead to put that money towards a new mainboard, microprocessor and RAM.

   JC> But you likely need a OS upgrade too and if you use
     > Windows, it's going to be cheaper to buy a ready unit
     > than putting a system together.

    My wife runs MS Windows on her own machine, but I mostly
run NetBSD and occasionally Linux.

- Andy Ball

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