[GTALUG] I'm discarding an old notebook!

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Anthony de Boer via talk <talk at gtalug.org>

| I have an even older notebook with a 32-bit Atom processor.

Are you sure that it is older?  The Atom was introduced in 2008, the
year after I bought my notebook.

The first Asus Eee PC preceded the Atom and used Intel Celeron M
procesors.

| It used to be
| useful, but after upgrading to the latest (Debian Bullseye) Firefox
| barely starts and is glacial enough to be totally unusable.  Older
| Firefox did run reasonably on that hardware, but software keeps assuming
| better hardware as it grows.
| 
| There may be roles like serial console or network debugger for a box
| like that.  Or stick with an older Linux contemporary to the hardware;
| sometimes bits of old software need an older libc or such and it can be
| handy to have a retro-system in reach.

Stop giving me excuses to keep it :-)

Browsers seem to continuously get hungrier but I actually think that
it is insane web developers who eat my systems.