[TriLUG] lightweight linux distro/pc giveaway

[Jim Ray]

Dude...i'm already 77% into iso download of xubuntu.  3 hrs to go at
14.9kB/s.  must have 2 cans and a tight string between us with those blazing
rates.

Regards,
 
Jim
 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Magnus
> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 12:47 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] lightweight linux distro/pc giveaway
> 
> Jim Ray wrote:
> > I've got a circa win98 pc from a neighbor that won't load my favorite
> > Ubuntu.  Any recommendations on an alternative flavor for an older
machine?
> 
> 
> I pretty regularly have installed OpenBSD on first generation pentiums
> and it works great.  Probably far more appropriate than any popular
> modern linux distro.
> 
> Linux has gotten pretty porky since its lean mean days in the underground.
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