>Following the recent announcements that SuSE and TurboLinux will be
releaseing Linux for the IBM S/390 and RedHat's release for the
Itanium, Slackware have announced a release for the Commodore 64.
>"It just seemed logical to go for a machine with a huge userbase."
Said a spokesman with a funny last name who was probably called Rob
or something. "Linux scales remarkable well to small machines. In fact
much better than it does large servers."
>Critics of the company are sceptical about whether the system will
be reliable since it comes on tape.
>"I just used the CD record feature on my stereo" said Rob. "It works
for music so why not data?"
>When asked whether a spectrumversion would be available, Rob said "It
all depends on the success of this version. We're hoping to port it to
all Z80 based machines, and possibly even pre-electronic machines".
>Charles Babbage was not available for comment
