[Lancaster] Complaint and offer

[Tim Churchill]

As a new member (?) I would have been interested to meet some of you, 
so turned up at the Folly last Wed. at 7.10pm. I waited for 10 mins 
and then left. It is not much fun sitting by your bike on a cold 
evening.

I have a couple of desktop PCs that need a home. I haven't analysed 
them recently, but if I remember rightly they have Celerons of about 
500MHz and a few Gigs in the HDs. The Floppy drives need the 
wormdrives cleaning as they tend to stick through lack of use. The 
HDs need wiping to get rid of their present Win 98 and past business 
associations - I use Killdisk for this. They both take PS2 
connections.

I recently installed SUSE 9 (cover disk) on an AMD 500 PC, and that 
was trouble free, whereas ArkLinux (which is designed for more modern 
PCs) gave a Kernel panic. ArkLinux will definitely be one to go for 
for a beginner with a modern PC, especially when they sort out the 
remaining problems. I have tried Debian once and gave up the attempt 
as I couldn't get past the command line. A bit peaving really as I 
had downloaded a complete set of ISOs, and I thought Debian was the 
flavour to go for when using Sound software.

Tim.



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