Anything! Mandrake seems to be sweeping the reviews just now and 8.1 is
recently out. There are a lot of 'drakes' in it (Harddrake, rpmdrake, etc)
Ignore them if they get on your nerves.
--
Regards,
Declan Moriarty
Applied Researches - Ireland's Foremost Electronic Hardware Genius
A Slightly Serious(TM) Company
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that Life gives you - AFTER all your hair has fallen out!
On Monday 10 December 2001 20:44, you wrote:
> Hey I got an DECpc 150 Alpha that we retired one year ago. Just stilling
> there - 2gig HD 128meg ram 2gig 4mm DAT drive. Anyone have any sugegstions
> what I should run on this monster???
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dallam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 1:10 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Linux for Luggable 'downgrade'?
>
>
>
> Hi Declan,
> It sounds interesting. Just two weeks ago I came across an old DEC
> 386 that the former owner was quite happy to give to me. I look
> forward to trying out a few on the mini linuxes on it as well. It
> will probably be after the holidays though, as I am gathering the
> pieces together to finally attempt to network the pc's here. Was
> glad to hear that someone else had an interest in the older machines
> as well,
>
> Dallam
>
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 06:05:37PM +0000, Declan Moriarty wrote:
> > You've all heard of pc upgrades; I've just fluttered a few quid on a
> > downgrade. Exact specs (Intel)'386, 4MB, 40MB HD, ISA bus, cga (sub
> > hercules) orange screen.
> >
> > The miniature linuxes I've tried are: Tomsrtbt - fine, but inscrutable
> > and difficult to modify; mulinux - d/l'ed something, got past the tar
> > command
>
> but
>
> > hung on the make, and lost intest 'cos I got busy. I don't mind a console
> > only interface, but a version of X would be better
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