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 class="email">Hi<br>Charles wrote:<br><br></span></div>"In
 fact Ubuntu 11.04 doesn't really run all that well on old hardware,  
Puppy Linux maybe. But Linux on old hardware is increasingly more 
difficult at least on mainstream distros. (Big distros)"<br><br>Well Charles you more than any of us would know, but I think that we have to look at what is now showing up at the curbs on garbage day.<br>512 megs of RAM may be the minimum that we find, with newer faster motherboards so it may make sense to take advantage of the increased RAM and faster computers.<br><br>I believe that these computers will start to arrive at the Working Centre soon.<br><br>Cheers<br><br>John Kerr<br>Dumpster diver, first class.<br><br></div><br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><div style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;"><font size="2">Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. - Mark Twain</font></div><span style="font-weight:bold;"></span><span
 class="intro"></span>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>==================================<br>John Eddie Kerr | Guelph, Ontario <br>==================================</td></tr></table>