Message-ID: <68a7abae@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: Old Hardware Redux Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <1084bk6$2ia1m$2@paganini.bofh.team> <1084bpn$7mtq$26@dont-email.me> <68a64428@news.ausics.net> <1086q67$2rq5s$5@paganini.bofh.team> <1086st0$rgpt$20@dont-email.me> User-Agent: tin/2.6.5-20250707 ("Helmsdale") (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 22 Aug 2025 09:28:46 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 42 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:71882 The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 21/08/2025 10:51, Marco Moock wrote: >> On 21.08.2025 07:54 Computer Nerd Kev wrote: >>> The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>>> 10 year old technology is fine, Just not 20 year old... >>> >>> For posting to Usenet, this 30 year old PC is doing fine for me. >> >> How do you install a current OS on it that supports current network >> protocols? >> > Find an older version of some current Linux that supports 32bit I guess. It's trickier to find one that builds the kernel and packages for i586 still. It runs modern Linux distros which still do, including (Tiny)X Windows and lightweight software (which I prefer on newer systems anyway). But newer software is slower and uses more RAM for little benefit, so using an old distro works better for many things. Hence Debian v3 and kernel 2.4 running now. > TCP/IP and Usenet haven't changed in 30 years really... True, though I have recently upgraded Tin on all my PCs after about a decade with v2.0.1 since on my newer laptop running Debian stable I noticed its newer Tin downloaded much less header/overview data when entering large newsgroups (even without the new NNTP compression feature, which the server I use doesn't support). I also noticed some new bugs though, which the author quickly fixed, while suggesting I try the overview caching feature which far reduced data use again (after one _huge_ initial download of old overview data for each group). So actually from a technical POV Usenet access has changed a lot lately on my end, and I can now use NNTP compression when available (with Gmane), but it still works fine on a 30 year old PC. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#