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Re: Scumbag WinTroll didn't do his Linux homework

From Marti Van Lin <ml2mst@dontevenbother.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.setup, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Subject Re: Scumbag WinTroll didn't do his Linux homework
Date 2011-06-17 06:37 +0200
Organization albasani.net
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On 16-06-11 22:07, JeffM wrote:

> David Brown wrote:
>> I can't really see the point
>> of trying to get any desktop use out of such an old system.
>>
> Well, there are some guys
> who think it's a reasonable pastime to try to ride a bull.
>
> Some guys create art out of grains of rice.
>
>> Yes, you can certainly get it running using a variety of distros
>> - but why bother?

Because I recycle those machines, gratis and mainly to elderly who don't 
need all this horsepower.

> Reportedly, when asked "Why do you want to climb Mount Everest?",
> George Mallory replied "Because it's there".
>
> In another post in this thread,
> I pointed to someone who had antiX going with 32MB of RAM.
> news:2d531ab4-9c15-4d77-9727-17a79105fd90@j23g2000yqc.googlegroups.com
>
> I'm sure it wouldn't be difficult to find
> someone here who remembers running Linux with 8MB of RAM.

My minimum was A Pentium 166 MMC with 16 MiB RAM, ATI Mach64 based GPU 
(2 MiB VRAM) and a 2.1 GiB IDE HDD. Dualboot running SuSE Linux 
6.1/Windows 95.

But... I also ran Uzix 1.0 on a MSX2 machine with 128 KiB RAM.

http://uzix.sourceforge.net/

>> You are not going to use the system for anything,
>> unless you have need of a bulky thin client.

Oh well, mutt, slrn, Midnight Commander and aptitude run just fine on it 
and the machine doesn't stand in my way. Also my wireless 
MODEM/router/firewall/switch thingy requires a external machine to send 
its logs to (using syslogd) and this old piece of trash, which nobody 
wants, is perfect for that task ;-)

> Ah, that we were all so affluent
> that we could turn up our noses at every bit of old gear.
> Ex-IT pro, teacher, and blogger Robert Pogson is in northern Canada
> where most of his students have been native peoples
> who have been screwed by governments for generations.
> He has to use whatever hardware he can get his hands on.
> Thin clients are a huge part of his method.
> http://google.com/search?q=site:mrpogson.com+thin-client+OR+thin-clients&num=100
> Of course he uses Linux.
>
> ...and you realize, of course, that the OP is a WinTroll
> who only uses a computer to do secretarial work
> and who can't use any software outside of preinstalled Windoze
> and preinstalled M$Office.


-- 
|_|0|_| Marti T. van Lin, alias ML2MST
|_|_|0| Registered GNU/Linux user 513040
|0|0|0| http://www.soundclick.com/martivanlin

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