[Gllug] Linux - big not small

Ian Norton inorton at iee.org
Thu Aug 4 14:21:05 UTC 2005


On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 02:24:38PM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> 
> On 4/8/2005, "John Hearns" <john.hearns at streamline-computing.com> wrote:
> 
> >Again, stressing that I'm not having a pop, is the meme
> >"Linux is run on old throw-away hardware" actually doing the community
> >damage?
> 
> Not at all!
> 
> The important thing to stress is this:
> You can learn to run Linux on spare, crappy, free hardware.
> 
> You can then use those skills to run Linux on everything from tiny
> systems[1] through embedded devices[2] all the way up to the largest
> supercomputers[3]!

Or how about saying, you can make hardware that would be otherwise
worthless into a valuble device with up-to-date software, 

Ian



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