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Re: What would you *like* to see in a pro-Linux article?

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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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Subject: Re: What would you *like* to see in a pro-Linux article?
Date: 1997/06/18
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