[Gllug] Small rant

[John Hearns]

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 21:31 +0000, David Bell wrote:
> On Monday 07 Nov 2005 21:19, Steve Nelson wrote:
> 
> > Maybe its because in my heart I am more excited about schools,
> > charities and other non-profits being able to have effective and
> > scaleable solutions than I am about big businesses using Linux.
> >
> For less than the cost of an OEM edition of Win XP one can buy a decent router 
> and NIC.  That old AMD 500 then becomes a treasured item to someone of 
> limited means.
I don't disagree there. Been there, done it. I used a discarded desktop
PC booted with a Linux router project floppy as a real production router
in a company I worked for.
Of course soon after we got gigabit switches, but I still did it!

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