I wrote:
I've given my cast-offs to my alter-ego's. Logistically I would have some difficulty casting them off to a spouse or child, because I do not have a spouse or child currently (or at least any I'm aware of!)
Firstly I gave my old Atari 1040ST to my "80's reminiscing persona", who is sometimes invited to play with such an old beast....
Next I gave my Atari Falcon030 music workstation to my "early 90's music maestro, and wannabe hippy dude", and he still likes to dabble with this machine, even though the real me uses Aranym to emulate this machine at a higher speed than the original ran at...
And finally I kept my Terminator 1100 to myself...reason being that it can emulate the other two faster than they can run natively, and also there is this thing called Linux installed on it... ;-)
I also have a Toshiba 440CDX laptop which was given to me free. This laptop is not owned by any of my personalities yet, because a reliable working OS and X setup eludes me with this machine. I'm about to buy a $20 Linux pocket magazine, which has 6 CD's attached (3 disk version of RH 9.0, 2 disk version of MDK 9.0, and 1 disk full of cool source for a heap of cool apps), and see if RH can install properly...
I've tried Debian 3.0, Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1, and all three distros get into difficulty finding all the packages on the distro CD's to install from...and the key ones they refuse to let me find are the lighter weight desktop programs like ICEwm, fvwm etc...which I need to get a workable X system going...KDE or Gnome kill it dead...
Kind regards,
Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch.
