[Menai-LUG] Freeduc demo linux

[Mr R G Shepherd]

I ran it on my laptop and created a default ramdisk partition (40Mb).

It automagically mounts the harddisk in /mnt/hda1 (i didn't check the mount 
options but) i was able to read and write to from the FAT32 disk.

It's quite cool because in win98 this machine struggles to play mp3 files.
(wmedia player, winamp, drs, it is just a bit too slow)
however xmms plays mp3's no problems.

I would recommend this distro to everyone.  The fact that it ran on my crumby 
laptop and recognised devices like my builtin cheapy sound card, my wireless 
trackball USB, and PCMCIA xircom network card is great.

In the magazine it even says something like...' if you are buying a latop with 
the intention of installing linux, take the disk to the shop and try it out'

works for me...no config...no worries..just a simple environment to have around 
when your usual thing aint happening!



Rob
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