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Article #55342Re: What would you *like* to see in a pro-Linux article?
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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 00:00
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In article <slrn5q1jvb.1ra.kspoon@strider.loeffel.net>, kspoon@mindless.com says... > >Frank Sweetser <rasmusin@wpi.wpi.edu> once proclaimed: >>danh@qnx.com (Dan Hildebrand) writes: > >>> >> ]Why, you can still use that 486/33 with 16M of memory for getting >>> >> ]on the internet easily and for other stuff, and you don't >>> >> ]have to buy a new computer just to print some letters. > >>> >> Watch it sonnie. > >>> >> I'm running Linux on a 486DX33 w 16 Mb. > >>> >My home Linux rides 386DX40/8MB without FPU (burnt up by mistake) - X >>> >are working (but no impression). >>> >Anyone bids less? ;-) Hmmmm....that last response sounds just a little on the kinky side. What about how it doesn't ask you to re-boot every time you make a minor change like NT does? I run my news server on NT right now and that drives me batty. Don > >>> There's someone surfing the web with an old IBM PS/2 with 16 MHz 386 and 6 >>> Mbytes of RAM, running the QNX demodisk. :-) > >>386DX 33mhz... no fpu... 10M swap, 4M ram... not only running XFree86 3.1, >>but running netscape... > >*ahem* > >http://www.ssc.com/lg/linuxita_mar96.html > >-K. Spoon >-- >Talk about a man who *loves* Linux....
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,568c0a2f5b9aca5b X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: ff9be,568c0a2f5b9aca5b X-Google-Attributes: gidff9be,public X-Google-Thread: 102983,568c0a2f5b9aca5b X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,568c0a2f5b9aca5b X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public From: Postmaster@barditch.com (Webmaster) Subject: Re: What would you *like* to see in a pro-Linux article? Date: 1997/06/18 Message-ID: <33a7a2e3.0@news.barditch.com> X-Deja-AN: 249278854 References: <vznzpszrxav.fsf@intruder.iassf.easams.com.au> <339DBFCC.31EB@XYZZYcalfp.com> <c1.01.2GRZHs$13B@cretin.summerfield.network> <08910fafke.fsf@lri.fr> <5npd5d$pj9@qnx.com> <wvyena7wvg6.fsf@wpi.WPI.EDU> <slrn5q1jvb.1ra.kspoon@strider.loeffel.net> X-Authenticated-User: jtb Organization: The Barditch News Server Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc