Technically windows 95/98...

[Philippine Mango]

Technically windows 95/98 should be sufficient for home/office use and should be secure enough if you've got the latest patches and are using fire fox correct? I mean I just reassembled a Pentium system agian and WOW it's actually quite fast (though it does have 128MB EDO ram instead of the default 32MB it came with). This is with it's old 4200/5200RPM HDD 6MB/s transfer speed. I bet if it had a 7200 RPM drive, the system would be even zippier than it is now.

 

[Link19]

Sure, Windows 98 will be fine for running old simplistic programs on old hardware. But in NO WAY is it ok for running today's programs on today's hardware. And that includes hardware and software produced in the last three years. Just get a good hardware firewall and you should be all set.

 

[kurt454]

Yeah, I am posting this on a 98se box running firefox. I think most of the exploits floating around are geared towards 2000/XP machines. 9x is slipping beneath the script kiddie radar.

 

[thegorx]

yeah, getting an ulta ide card for a faster hard drive would make it run a little better.
but like was stated you'll have to use programs of the time
todays programs are resource hogs

I tried to run openoffice on an old machine and no go with that
so very slow

 

[spherrod]

fine for the machine you've got with basic stuff

 

[xgsound]

If you get win98se you can use http://exuberant.ms11.net/98sesp.html to install the "unofficial win98se rollup" . This will bring several security , usb, and driver issues up to date.


Jim

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
Technically windows 95/98 should be sufficient for home/office use and should be secure enough if you've got the latest patches and are using fire fox correct? I mean I just reassembled a Pentium system agian and WOW it's actually quite fast (though it does have 128MB EDO ram instead of the default 32MB it came with). This is with it's old 4200/5200RPM HDD 6MB/s transfer speed. I bet if it had a 7200 RPM drive, the system would be even zippier than it is now.

Most systems of that era were severly starved from RAM. Bringing it to 128 is a big boost, remember with only 32MB RAM you can't really load a GUI w/o hitting up the swapfile quite a bit.