Reply With Quoteand poor old Linus has probably not made a quid out of it.
Ron
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Mate, DSL is a great little tool kit.Originally Posted by Rovernaut
I have mine as a bootable CD, little mini CD. The entire system, applications, games, everything, loads into about 135 Mb of memory and is blindingly fast. The bootable CD can then be removed and you still have access to the CD or DVD drive.
PuppyLinux is another neat little system.
Matter of fact, Mandriva actually sell a 2 Gb USB drive. Loaded with the latest system, branded with logo the lot. Just plug it in and boot up.
Probably not the only one either.
Now, Dell and Lenovo (IBM) are selling machines with Linux pre-installed rather than MS Windows.
Novell sell big iron, all Linux pre-installed. And not just Intel, IBM clone, X86 boxes either. Sun Blade servers, Sparc machines, PPC Macs, IBM Cell processors all run on Linux.
My MTV digital set top box runs an embedded Linux system.
The Billion router for my broadband, is embedded Linux.
The bloody LG fridge with the internet capability is run on Linux.
Try getting MS Windows to run your fridge for you. Good luck.
You can get a Windows Virtual Machine to run under VMWare in Linux if you really want, or need that. I do, just for fun.
Just to see what it does. How it works, what it does, or can and can't do.
Shorty.
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Ron
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mainstream linux distributions are just so passée these days...
half the fun of linux was getting the dam thing to boot on your hardware...
be a hacker not a pleb....
buy vista and run it on your 486!
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mainstream linux distributions are just so passée these days...
half the fun of linux was getting the dam thing to boot on your hardware...
be a hacker not a pleb....
buy vista and run it on your 486!
You are a very sick man.
Shorty.
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Nope, I think he's doing all right.
Probably not as well as Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but definitely better than me, and I presume better than you (but that is really a bit poor form on my behalf IMHO).
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Ron
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RIP Bucko - Riding on Forever
Wizard
Not quite Ron.
My 100% service disability pension is 25% of the weekly average. By DVA laws, that is. Not the Veterans Entitlement Act. No.
Article 41 of the Veterans Entitlement Act.
The DVA enterpretation of the act. A different book.
Oops, here I'd better stop. Might get myself in trouble.
Article 41 again. It is illegal for us to take this to court to fight for better treatment.
Bugger. I did it again didn't I. I told the bloody truth again.
No wonder they hate me.
By the way. How is the Linux adventure going?
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