On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:07:09PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'm looking for examples illustrating the flexibility possible with > GNU/Linux.
How about the ability to tailor your working environment to the abilities (limits) of your hardware? There's an interesting 60-ish guy who occasionally rolls up on his bicycle to NBLUG installfests carrying an *ancient* classic 100mhz Pentium notebook with 40 MB ram. I'm not sure if he's still homeless but he has been so recently. Utilizing icewm and appropriate lightweight apps (Dillo,abiword,pine) he's got himself a perfectly usuable and secure system. As an aside, I think it's interesting how he came to be a Linux user so I'll include an excerpt of an article I wrote after our last installfest: He bought a $40 copy of Debian because the box talked about that fact that not only does Debian offer free lifetime updates over the Internet, but that it is developed openly through the cooperative effort of hundreds of volunteer individuals. In short, not a hacker looking for something to play with, but merely a man wanting to use his computer as a useful and reliable tool and to do it in a socially conscious manner. -troy _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
