In comp.os.linux.advocacy, John Bailo
<jabailo@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote
on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:36:01 -0800
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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> | The Chinese have a saying: the journey of a thousand miles begins
>> | with the first step. Reusing a puffing and wheezing old computer
>> | by installing a minimal GNU/Linux distro and staving off the day
>> | when it trudges forlornly to the scrapheap is at least a baby step
>> | in the right direction.
>
> Typically doesn't technology become more power efficient and less
> polluting over time?
>
> So do new computers pollute less, emit less heat?
>
I used to have a 67.5 W knocking about; I think it was
from my old PC. Modern power supplies run at least 300 W,
but are far more capable.
So which is better, and for whom?
[1] An old Pentium-90, Pentium-200, or Pentium-800
resurrected running Linux, albeit a bit slowly?
[2] Chucking that thing into the recycle bin (mandated
by law around here) and going out and buying a brand new
operating system (with computer surrounding it) running
Microsoft Windows Vista?
And what form of "better" would be used here?
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