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Skriven 2007-01-12 23:22:00 av David Calafrancesco (1:2624/306.0)
   Kommentar till text 8909 av Holger Granholm (2:20/228)
Ärende: Fun find from the past
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Holger Granholm wrote in a message to David Calafrancesco:

 HG> In a message dated 01-09-07, David Calafrancesco said to Holger
 HG> Granholm:

 HG> Hi Dave,

DC>Do you have a spare system hanging around you can experiment with?
DC>If so, download and burn a copy of the Ubuntu 6.10 install cd.

 HG> Yes I do in fact have a couple of computers that I could experiment
 HG> on. Trouble is that I'm restricted to a telephone modem and you
 HG> just don't attempt downloads of that size.

True... is there anyone near you with a higher speed connection and a cd burner
willing to DL and burn a cd for you? The Ubuntu project has authorized several
resellers for their latest version, including resellers in Europe so you should
be able to locate someone who can sell you a set of CDs or DVDs for a
reasonable price. 

 HG> Another problem is that those computers are in the 400 MHz class
 HG> with 64 or 288 Mb RAM. The latter one has the graphics system on
 HG> the mobo and nobody knows if it's supported by Linux.

64mb would be too little for Gnome or KDE, but might be OK for a very stripped
down text only system like a firewall or something similar. The processor is
fine, slow, but fine. The video only needs to be SVGA compatible. If it is,
then any linux will run on it. Linux supports older hardware better than
anything else I've seen, especially better than WinXP. 

DC>Install or boot the live CD and see just how little you need to
DC>configure to get a decent running system using a modern linux
DC>distribution. 

 HG> I have been on the verge of trying Ubuntu. Even went so far as to
 HG> contact "shipit.ubuntu.com" or was it .org to buy an install CD but
 HG> after having gone through a mass of security questions and
 HG> continuing with "NEXT" I wasn't let in with my old Netscape.

That's the problem with using a decade old browser... all of the security sigs
have expired in the SSL engine. Not sure how to get around that... I haven't
used the browser in OS2 to access the web in many many many years... at least 6
years, likely more. 

DC>I haven't had to make any significant changes to it or I would have
DC>shut down the OS2 system entirely as it would have been too much of
DC>a bother to remember how to do things to modify it. 

 HG> That's the problem with OS/2. When/if something goes wrong you
 HG> don't remember how to set up the system again because it too long
 HG> ago that something went askew.

Yeah... I hear ya... even with it trapping every month, it still keeps going
and going and going... 

Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.org

... They got the library at Alexandria, they're not getting mine! 
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