Re: MX Linux has an old-school look and feel. Here's why it's so popular

From	Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: MX Linux has an old-school look and feel. Here's why it's so popular
Date	2022-08-15 20:34 -0700
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On 8/15/22 19:49, 25B.Z969 wrote:
> On 8/12/22 3:17 PM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
>> On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 00:43:53 -0400, 25B.Z969 wrote:
>>>
>>> On 8/11/22 9:26 AM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
>>>
>>>> Looking for "tiny" "Linux" and "floppy" there seems to be a recent
>>>> development called Floppinux.
>>>> Now found what I had. It was tomsrtbt.
>>>
>>>    You found that on a retail shelf ???
>>
>> No, I bought blank floppy disks from a small computer store, which also
>> had an "internet cafe" (WIFI wasn't a thing back in 2003). So I put the
>> image with an image creator on that floppy disk and took it home to boot
>> the broken hard disk.
> 
>    Ah, yea, I didn't expect you would have found it at Wal-Mart.
>    There were still lots of 'computer stores' where you could
>    find all kinds of weird stuff. One semi-nuts/technogeek
>    with an IQ surely around 200 made $$$ selling his own, hand
>    writ, versions of the popular cartridge video games (and
>    they were sometimes better). He wrote them on a PET, in HEX
>    CODED binary ... said it gave him a buzz. Strongly reminded
>    me of that character in the "Real Genius" movie that lived
>    behind the closet wall. He always had funky systems/adapters/
>    software/parts/etc you'd NEVER find at normal retail.
> 
>    I do remember "internet cafe's" ... a retail-sized space with
>    a bunch of PCs - all ultimately hard-wired to the net, sometimes
>    via dial-up. There was a fairly recent 'hero' movie - the
>    feminized Capt Marvel - where our heroine visits such a place ...
>    AltaVista search engine, Netscape, Mosaic  :-)
> 
>    Such places persisted for quite awhile outside of the USA.
> 
>    There were some good things from the Old Days however ...
>    I miss BBS's, the CompuServe Forums were VERY much like
>    usenet too and it was still possible to 'meet' some
>    actual movers and shakers. Most of all I miss the BYTE
>    magazine forums - Tech Concentrate.
> 
>    Heh ... for fun I used to post to Compuserve using
>    a dumb serial terminal with a 1200 baud USR modem
>    plugged into the back. 'ATTD ..."  :-)

	Internet cafes went down the drain in San Ftancisco because
they were subverted by Coffee shops with WiFi.  The SFPL-Main has
a lot of computers,  some connecting to the Internet and others to the
Card Catalogs.  Closest thing to an Internet Cafe you will see
extant.

	bliss

-- 
bliss dash SF 4 ever at dslextreme dot com

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