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Skriven 2005-09-24 19:20:00 av MARTIN ATKINS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MAURICE KINAL
Ärende: software for linspire
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-=> MAURICE KINAL wrote to MARTIN ATKINS <=-

MK> Hey MARTIN!

MK> Sep 22 22:19 05, MARTIN ATKINS wrote to MAURICE KINAL:

MA> I'm waiting until next year when i hope to get a newer computer. Then
MA> i can
MA> decommission one of my old ones and have a go at building a slack.

MK> I would do it the other way around.  Why waste a brand new computer
MK> just to replace what you already have?

It won't be brand new just newer. :-} Why would i use a more powerful
machine to run Slack and a slower machine to do all the stuff like 
spreadsheets, word processing, charting and duel boot Win/Me
for banking?

MA> I'll probably start off by making it a firewall and see if i can move
MA> on
MA> from there. I'm not worried about compiling stuff so i'm not really
MA> married to RPM.

MK> Ah!  I get you now.  That is a good place to start.  Makes sense to me
MK> now although I'd personally put Slack on the new computer as well
MK> except make it a bit beefier.  Not too much though.

The machine i'm on now will be for testing new public releases of 
Mandriva, Fedora and some such. I may even have a Look at Dabian.
It will also serve as a backup for the newer machine. I will be using
a Pentium/200MX with only a 2 gig H/D and 64meg of ram for the Slack
but that may change depending how i get on. I also have a Pen/133
with a broken CDROM and ditto floppy. This one has my first Linux
install on it Redhat 5.2 spread over two 500 meg drives and that
stores all my old DOS stuff. 

MA> Most of the stuff you mention i have some experience with but not as
MA> much as i would like.

MK> Same here.  (Re)learning by picking away at it all.  I am in no real
MK> rush. When things come together it always comes together in a very good
MK> way.  I like when that happens.

I usually bang away at a problem until i get it right but if i find
myself getting angry and frustrated i walk away from it for a few days
or even weeks. It's amazing what a clear head can do. Often i see
silly stupid mistakes i have made out of frustration.

MA> The thing is i don't want to be hanging around for stuff when i'm in
MA> the learning mood.

MK> Which is why I suggested having archives handy of the good stuff.  The
MK> tricky part is knowing what you'll need, no matter what the task,
MK> beforehand.  You have to be able to predict when the mood will strike
MK> and have the iron preheated for that occasion.  A high speed connection
MK> won't make a difference in this particular cause ... but then again it
MK> won't hurt either.

I back up and archive all the time. Even stuff i probably will never
need again. ;)

MA> As you know you rarely need just one thing at a
MA> time,
MA> it tends to escalate. I don't like sitting there drumming my fingers
MA> when i've got a bee in my bonnet. :)

MK> I hear you there.  That can happen every once and awhile.  However a
MK> bit of advance planning can save finger drumming especially when the
MK> 'must haves' are already there at those same finger tips.

Well i know i will need some kind of Slack distro but other than 
that i am in the dark so planning ahead is going to be difficult.
I think i will need first to set up a development environment.
These days it's all pointy clicky and away you go but i speculate
that it ain't gonna be so with slack. I did it many years ago when
i first started using Linux so i hope i can grab some memories
from the cobwebs of my mind but even so i used mainly RPMs at the 
time.

Hey! Cut it out Maurice your wetting my appetite.:-} 
The tax year is over here in Australia so i will see how things go.

:)
  
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