Brian Masinick
@Seaken64: I always appreciate your experiments, learning experiences, and interest in getting value out of older equipment, even though you have other equipment. Over the past year (and for the first time since I’ve owned equipment myself), I’m starting to find instances where old equipment works with certain software (like ours) and certain “new” software ONLY seems to work with new hardware.
What I’ve started doing is that I’m running some software that works well on the newer stuff and different software that works on the older stuff. In the past I have had multi-boot configurations consisting of up to a dozen distributions, occasionally even getting over a dozen. On my newest system now, and also on a six-seven year old system I put in SSD technology, but to conserve on cost I used only hardware with a moderate capacity, so I’m down to 4-5 distributions on those systems. Since I’m retired anyway, this has become nothing more than a hobby, and also because we’ve replaced work activities with interests and family activities, sometimes I actually have LESS time than I did previously for tweaking and testing software, because SOME of that was job related in the past, and the rest was my hobby; now it’s something to do in my “spare time”. Oddly, as a retired person, since I’m able to do different things, I do NOT typically have MORE spare time than I did in the past, I just use my time for DIFFERENT things, such as seeing babies from nieces, nephews, and younger friends, visiting other retired people who I have not seen in a long time, etc. I still like software, it’s just not the only thing in my life; it’s one of the lesser things since PEOPLE mean more to me than software.
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Brian Masinick
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