[TriLUG] lightweight linux distro/pc giveaway

[Jim Ray]

Well, of course I decided I want you to load up a box for me :-)

Regards,
 
Jim
 
Jim Ray, President
Neuse River Networks
tel: 919-838-1672 cell: 919-606-1772
http://www.Neuse.Net
 
Connecting You to the World since 1997
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of
> jason at monsterjam.org
> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 12:13 PM
> To: Jim Ray
> Cc: 'Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list'
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] lightweight linux distro/pc giveaway
> 
> so what did you decide on this?
> 
> Jason
> 
> 
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 06:03:17PM -0400, Jim Ray wrote:
> > Gentoo is too tough for my little ole pea brain.  If I go that route, me
> > thinks I'll seek your services on loading it :-)
> >
> > On that note, any chance of getting you to load an email server for me?
> > I've got 7 employees and need a local server that will do POP3 on the
LAN as
> > well as IMAP plus do that little smart host thingie for SMTP so I don't
have
> > to authenticate with anything off the LAN.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > Jim Ray, President
> > Neuse River Networks
> > tel: 919-838-1672 cell: 919-606-1772
> > http://www.Neuse.Net
> >
> > Connecting You to the World since 1997
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> > Behalf Of
> > > jason at monsterjam.org
> > > Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 1:24 PM
> > > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> > > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] lightweight linux distro/pc giveaway
> > >
> > > (taking one more whack at this dead horse) thats why youd want to  run
> > Gentoo. so you can
> > > be as lean and mean as you
> > > want, or as fat and bloated as any modern-day M$/linux binary based
> > distro. Nothing is
> > > installed by "default".
> > >
> > > Jason
> > >
> > > On Sat, Mar
> > > 24,
> > > 2007 at 12:46:48PM -0400,
> > > Magnus
> > > wrote:
> > > > 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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