Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Older Hardware Still Works Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:37:33 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <4vecnYdHDPuMwwT1nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@giganews.com> <08ldnl-8p5.ln1@otis.foo> <1083h1b$402c$2@dont-email.me> <5q90ol-l52.ln1@otis.foo> <108lk3i$br9n$9@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit Injection-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:06:01 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="df0fb0ede1b88d03536ca48ae7398f9e"; logging-data="1467775"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/TxSYgx2GouDQH/0Z8GNrFTcveCka7S+8=" User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:8vhcBbvFLe43gTuzeCOdG38E+3A= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:72526 Groovy hepcat Lawrence D’Oliveiro was jivin' in comp.os.linux.misc on Wed, 27 Aug 2025 10:39 am. It's a cool scene! Dig it. > On Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:02:29 +1000, Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood wrote: > >> Groovy hepcat Lawrence D’Oliveiro was jivin' in comp.os.linux.misc on >> Wed, 20 Aug 2025 01:56 pm. It's a cool scene! Dig it. >> >>> On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 17:21:04 +1000, Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood wrote: >>> >>>> After hearing about Ubuntu Netbook Remix, I decided that would be a >>>> better option. Unfortunately the UI that came with that also >>>> sucked! >>> >>> sudo apt-get kubuntu-desktop >> >> Yeah, I know. But at the time I only had crappy dial-up internet, >> and >> there weren't any free wi-fi spots near me. Downloading software was >> difficult at best, and maxed out before it's finished. So doing that >> was not really an option then. > > Surely downloading a whole new distro would have been even more > bandwidth- hungry. True, but getting them from magazine cover CDs/DVDs wasn't. Nor was ordering a disk set from a disk set vendor. -- ----- Dig the NEW and IMPROVED news sig!! ----- -------------- Shaggy was here! --------------- Ain't I'm a dawg!!