Re: Upgrade Time Again

[Richard <nospam [at] zen.co.uk>]

Dear All

Jim Jackson <jj [at] scs.leeds.ac.uk>Re: Upgrade Time Again

> > I think 10 Gb will keep you going for quite some time.

Oh.. I don't know . Takes me about a week to fill that up with
various experiments (to see if something works or not)

I'm having
> > trouble filling up 5.6 Gb with Debian (Which has a lot more packages etc
> > etc, do we see a theme developing here. Isn't distribution advocacy
> > wonderful)
>
Yes... I think it's good. Don't like to listen to some of the
commercial people though. If you listen to them it goes something
like ... Gee isn't that Red Hat (with an L.A accent whilst wearing
shades)

> I use Debian too - I also program, so far My 3.4G disk holds well under 1G
> for both Linux and DOS and Win3.11 . It's not just about distributions and
> advocacy - it's about resisting the hype from Micro$haft, and the PC
> makers that you HAVE to have all this power, disk space, RAM etc etc just
> to basically function. You don't. You may need the CPU/Graphics power and
> disk space and memory for playing some of the high end games, and for
> getting any of the M$ products to run, but with linux you have the choice.
> And if you are not wedded to a windowing environment them your choice is
> even greater - you can run on very modest machines and run very well.
>
Yes

> In quite recently upgraded to a 166 :-)
>
Nice machines aren't they ?

> My retired 486 is earmarked for a similar setup, either that or I may
> cobble together various bits to create a 386DX40 box with 8M RAM and 2x40M
> hard disks and see how that does - problem as always is time :-(
>
Yes.. all that fiddling around with various bits.

Thanks

Richard

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