Deprecated is designed to be a resource site for those of us
who are using those not-so-great computers that the priviledged throw out.
My whole thought on the matter is that, at one time all of these computers
were top of the line. My question is "Where did all of the software for them go?"
It is this sites goal to find as much software as possible that will run on these
machines.
The first time I thought of this website was 10-15-00, when my friend and I were
trying to find software and Linux distributions for his little laptop. His laptop runs
at the mind-boggling speed of 25mhz and has JUST under 4mb of ram( maybe 3.8 megs ).
The point is, it was SO hard to find something capable of running on it! It took us
almost 2 hours to find a "diskette" distribution of Linux. A few years back(about 6 or so) the
amount of software for that laptop was abundant. What happened to all of those apps? Where are
they? Hopefully I will be able to find them.
10-18-00 : Today I found a very interesting thing that Slackware does for its distributions( or atleast
they used to). Slackware has the entire distribution in diskette blocked format which means that
all I have to do is pick what packages I want for my laptop and install then a disk at a time. This
might seem long and tedious to some, but my laptop doesn't have a cd-rom. This can really hamper
matters, and I give Slackware my gratitude for their efforts. The distribution was released in 1996( version
3.1, I think). It comes out blazing with kernel 2.0.0 and is born to frag. My main joy was that
the developmental packages were included, so now I can enjoy programming with gcc at the coffee shop :).
I'm in the process of formatting the drive at the moment. It's 4:44am and I have a computer science lab
at 10:00am. I haven't slept yet. The things I'll do for computers.
10-20-00 : As of today I have a fully functional slackware laptop. 8^) I'm running slackware 4.0 with
the base installation(which is 15 disks) and I also installed some development packages so I can program c, c++,
and perl(8 diskettes). Including my boot and root disk, that is a total of 25 diskettes. I'm just glad I had
access to a dsl connection.*grin*
I would like to thank Slackware for keeping those of us who use deprecated hardware in mind. If it weren't
for Slackware's recognitiion of this issue, I would be running some useless version of DOS*cringe*
I have added a few new links to the website from the suggestion of my friend. I will be adding his page onto
this site as soon as he sends one to me, so Keep checking with us.
