Re: [Sheflug] Re: New Front Page

[Jim Jackson <nospam [at] scs.leeds.ac.uk>]

Sorry Richard it is not drivel. You are beginning to sound like
someone from Micro$oft - god forbid :-) 

Linux is being used for community development, and third world development
schemes precisely because it runs so well on old hardware, when those
Micro$oft OSes and apps won't. It also runs on the latest hardware pretty
damn good too - it is possible to do both. You should hear Linus on the
subject - check the kernel list when someone recommends dropping 386
support!

The chances are that in the future web "appliances" will actually be less
powerful than todays PC's - to make them cheap, and use less power, and
have you seen the lack of definition on a Web TV? 640x480 is hardly
possible. While many might argue that the web TV and appliance users won't
be interested in Linux, they maybe, and we need to reach everyone who
wants to see the alternative that the GNU, Linux, BSD etc world offers.

All the best
Jim

On Wed, 3 May 2000, Richard wrote:

> Dear All
> 
> Robert Speed wrote:
> 
> 
> > Agreed.
> > My main (Intel (well, AMD..)) PC at home still has a 640x480
> > monitor - mainly as 'it works' and it was free...
> > And I'm too poor to buy another !
> > (Puts e-cap on floor, virtual fivers waft in my general direction...)
> 
> If I listened to any of this drivel I wouldn't be sitting on a chair,
> or sitting at a desk or have a pair of shoes.  Neither would I be able
> to write a web site.  A 1 metre ruler would be 300 millimetres.  We
> wouldn't have an engineering industry.
> 
> Perhaps we only need to live in caves ?? 
> 
> 

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