On 03/02/2012 09:54 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > the available computers might be donated computers > from the late '90s or early 2000s Well, I dunno, I doubt whether this is much of a third-world issue; it's more of an backwater first-world issue. Let me try to explain. At UCLA we often get donations of discarded servers, and they're usually about five years old. Once we're done using them (the Solaris 8 boxes I'm talking about are a dozen years old and still ticking), nobody wants them except maybe computer museums, as the energy cost of running them far exceeds any economic value you get out of them, even in the third world. As I understand it, our Solaris 8 boxes are still alive mainly for licensing reasons, to run proprietary software that I'm not involved with and which we can't afford to upgrade. I expect this is the a common reason old Solaris 8 machines are kept running elsewhere too. Third-worlders tend to use cell phones and notebooks, not vintage AC-powered servers from the 1990s. And they tend not to worry about proper licensing. So it's first-world backwaters that have to deal with the old stuff, and we are the people most likely to benefit from .gz files. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
