[Gllug] Small rant

[Paul Rayner]

On 7 Nov 2005, at 21:21, Martin A. Brooks wrote:

> John Hearns wrote:
>> But, but what IS this thing with 'Linux is good for rescuing
>> old/dead/underpowered/free hardware?'
>> Sorry to say it - we've come a LOONNGG way in the last few years.
>
> Linux, and OSS applications, are also good for rescuing modern  
> hardware too.
>

IMHO the less people whose first experience of linux is an old P500  
running a GUI comparable to win 95 the better.

Perhaps a good suggestion for people on a limited budget but not  
wanting to have to sacrifice running a modern Desktop environment would  
be the £150 Linux boxes Ebuyer are selling at the moment.

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html? 
rb=12974714516&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=89079

or just type "linux" in the search box from the main page.

 From reviews it looks like they run some form of Mandrake/Mandriva.  
I've ordered a couple to run as backup file servers - they'll be  
overwritten with FC4, but if anyone's interested I can boot them up  
first and have a poke around to see what's on them.

Regards,

Paul

P.S I have no connection to Ebuyer, and know that their customer  
service can leave something to be desired!
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