[plug] Free CD linux - any good ?

[Greg]

very true.
----- Original Message -----
From: Simon Scott <simon.scott at flexiplan.com>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Free CD linux - any good ?


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love how u put this..for a minute there i thought bill gates was talking

"What do u want to do today" LOL


> Email, WWW, WP etc Think about it, what do you do today that you couldnt
do
> 5 or 6 years ago? As I said, except for super-3D games, not much I bet!
>
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> From: David Griffiths <griffith at environ.wa.gov.au> on 30-03-2001
> 11:42 AM
> Please respond to plug at plug.linux.org.au@SMTP at Exchange
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> Subject: Re: [plug] Free CD linux - any good ?
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> >486's are still incredibly useful machines, esp the one that
> started this
> >thread. A 133mhz 486 can run a good deal of daemons, compile a 2.2
> kernel is
> >15 minutes. Now XT's, thats a tin can and string machine.
>
> Yep, I still boot up my 486/33 on occassion to play with networking.
> Also
> use a windows 486 booting off a toms rtb floppy  as a text console
> (ie
> second screen) to my main computer. Which is a humble 166MHz cyrix
> chip
> (P200+) cpu.
>
> A celeron, as out of date as they are, is something I'm still
> dreaming
> about at this point. (well I'll probably go straight to athlon/duron
> anyway
> once I get back from travels).
>
> cheers,
>
> Dave.
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