On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 08:45:02PM -0800, Horst wrote:
> Ben, thanks for doing this!
>  I thinks I know Dan, and he is a nice guy (maybe twice the age of most of
> us, in that respect a test case on how well 'we' we are doing in community
> support, helping folks with a limited budget, and an old PC with limited
> resources)
>  In more general terms, is there a 'distro', as .tgz, on CD, ...<your
> choice> that fits such people's needs --to some extend out of the
> box? (GUI being a NoNo on a P155)

I could put a single .tgz together for this.  Just 'pkg_add mutt'
to an OpenBSD base system.  Heck, I could even setup the mail and ppp for
EFN defaults.  As well as basic pf.

A single floppy, an ~20MB tarball.  10 minute install and setup.

But how many people really just want text based email and www?

And, of course, which *nix text editor is going to be "easy"
for converts?  I like mg (formerly known as 'micro GNU Emacs', until
RMS said, "That's not GNU software"), maybe nano would be easier?

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