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Re: Currant Bun

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From: mike Mike Dickson
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 00:00
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In article <eyh66wqrw1z.fsf@liddell.cstr.ed.ac.uk> spt@cstr.ed.ac.uk wrote...

> And I put Linux up the firt tme in about that time |(I was watching a
> film while I did it, so I know it wan't more than 90 mins or so.

Oh I've installed it in less than hlf an hour. It has taken me upwards
of a few *days* to get it to do anything useful. (I mean...Ghostscript?!)

> Can't see that it really matters that much actually. Applications and
> standards are more of a problem than the OS.

...as IBM can attest.

Mike Dickson, Black Cat Software Factory, Edinburgh, Scotland
fax 0131-665-1298 - Columnated Ruins Domino - Mellotron M400 #996
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From: mike@blackcat..demon..co..uk (Mike Dickson)
Subject: Re: Currant Bun
Date: 2000/01/19
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