Lots of developing and thirdworld countries are running on 98 cause their HW won't support anything newer. Try running XP on a Pentium I or II with 128 megs of memory.
True, people should switch to linux and forget all of this M-$hit .
How about the IT industry big players donating all of the refresh program/refurbish PII, PIII and other PCs to the thirdworld, rather than tossing them in the trash, or scrapping them cause they belong to the competition. One good example is that some companies that outsource IS/IT (say HP) first thing they do is ripout all of the Dell, Cisco (as an example) infrasturcture and put their own. What to they do with the Dell/Cisco HW? Who knows. Most likely its trashed since they don't want to to promote the competition. Now you have this project here where we're making new/cheap laptops that we're planning to SELL, vs. take out all of the existing deprecitated PCs, Switches, Hubs, etc, give it to a charity , and let them refurbish these units and re-distribute them...
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Lots of developing and thirdworld countries are running on 98 cause their HW won't support anything newer. Try running XP on a Pentium I or II with 128 megs of memory. True, people should switch to linux and forget all of this M-$hit .
How about the IT industry big players donating all of the refresh program/refurbish PII, PIII and other PCs to the thirdworld, rather than tossing them in the trash, or scrapping them cause they belong to the competition. One good example is that some companies that outsource IS/IT (say HP) first thing they do is ripout all of the Dell, Cisco (as an example) infrasturcture and put their own. What to they do with the Dell/Cisco HW? Who knows. Most likely its trashed since they don't want to to promote the competition. Now you have this project here where we're making new/cheap laptops that we're planning to SELL, vs. take out all of the existing deprecitated PCs, Switches, Hubs, etc, give it to a charity , and let them refurbish these units and re-distribute them ...