-->"Andrew" == andrew holway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Andrew> is this hobbyism? i guess it could be classed as such. personally, i have several SPARC8 machines which continue to work exactly as they did when new. they were adequate for their purpose then, and continue to be so now. i'd prefer not to discard and replace them simply because there's a 'newer model' available. however, it would prefer that they were kept current with security patches. i'd be ok running a 2.4 kernel, or even a 2.2 kernel, but the way free software works out, you basically need to be running the current release to get fixes, and by dependency chains, that ends up meaning the current kernel. yes, i could replace them with a P3 with 10 times the memory for under $100, but it strikes me as wasteful. of course, the counter argument is that it's wasteful to expend the effort to support a handful of older machines. and i can see why people prefer not to do so. it'd be nice if there were enough folks wanting to continue to use their older gear to keep it alive, but perhaps that's not the case. d -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]