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

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From: Richie Bielak
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 00:00

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K. Spoon wrote:

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> On the plus side, the corp people will probably be very attracted to the
> fact that Linux can ressurect that "old" 486 machine sitting on the
> shelf....as well as provide a lot of the same functionality as an NT server.

I think one way to sell Linux to the masses is to point out that
it will happily run on a computer that is obsolete to run Win9x.

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.

...richie

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Subject: Re: What would you *like* to see in a pro-Linux article?
Date: 1997/06/10
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