Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Anyone running a 486? Was: openswan

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> >I've seen many fully functional 586's (CD & memory & NIC)
> >selling for around $5 (US) for the last couple years.
> 
> Why shoud anybody replace a 486 that is running perfectly 
> stable with hardware that still has to prove its stability?

Technology moves on.  Is a 486 even fast enough to keep up 
with today's broadband speeds?  What's the point of paying
for a 6MB cable modem when your 486 with ISA NIC's can only
deliver a fraction of that speed?

> Even it the hardware costs virtually nothing compared to
> the time spent.

How many 486 DL boxes do you have running?
Do you keep them updated to the latest releases of DL?
I have this suspicion that the only 486 DL boxes left
haven't been updated to a new DL release in years.

It's true that I'd love to get rid of the 486 release, but
I mainly said that to see how many people would complain.

So far NOBODY has admitted to running a 486 DL box.
Not even you (yet, anyway).   :-)

 - BS