On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 18:32 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > On 10/31/2014 2:35 PM, Always Learning wrote: > > It is a shame to chuck-out perfectly good working machinery - just > > because someone, somewhere else, decided it should be redundant. > its a shame to waste 1000s of watts of electricity plus air conditioning > on a rack full of old computers when a single new computer could replace > the whole thing and only use a few 100 watts. Excellent comment about rack-mounted equipment. Never-the-less, to throw-away (or recycle) working equipment seems to me to be a pity - but that is the reality. Hopefully ? there is a Linux capable of providing conventional facilities on old, but working, 32-bit desktop and portable equipment which could be given to the needy people. Hmm, I wonder when 128-bit processors will appear :-) -- Regards, Paul. England, EU.