wboz wrote:RE the comment that Lucid is one of the most popular versions - why is this?
It's popular because it ROCKS!...
And did I recently mention that playdayz ROCKS!!??...
Seriously, thank you to all of our great Devs!...
My observation is that Lucid is lighter hardware load than 4.31/4.32. It also has better stability, and better hardware support -- I don't think that I've run across anything "newer" that it didn't work on. **Newer being machines from the last decade -- my newest desktop is from 2005 (though I did recently buy a "new" Win7 laptop). 5.28 also runs fine on my older desktop. And 5.25 Retro runs on my really old 333 MHz PII laptop (though I recently rolled it back to 4.12 Retro -- the newer versions are just a bit "heavy" for it, once you open a browser).
Looking at my user "pile" (machines which are actively used), all 5 are running 5.28 (all dual boot - 1 with Win98--my main desktop, 3 XP, 1 Win7). My old 333MHz test bed is Win98/4.12 Retro/5.25 Retro. And I almost exclusively use 5.28 it on my Win7 machine (running on a SD card in the side) -- just don't think it's a good idea to give Windows too much access to the internet...
I was given an old "junk" laptop that I'm thinking about putting into service. No HDD (and they tossed the adapter/carrier for the HDD), and it has some keys missing, but it's fairly fast and has 1GB RAM... Maybe I'll swap it in for this tower I'm running -- probably use less power... But then I won't have access to my 5.25" floppy drive...
(hey, I am a retro tech guy!... I recently started going through my old disks, dumping them on a HDD - still got a couple shoe boxes of 5.25" to go through...)