Political Blather
Luke -Jr
luke at dashjr.org
Tue Jan 23 10:01:16 CST 2007
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 09:13, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO wrote:
> I call BS. Over and over again, I have pointed you to DamnSmall Linux
> (DSL). http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
> At the risk of sounding like a broken record, they have "50MB of Penguin
> Power." There should be no barrier to entry for a user getting DSL. It
> is so small that anyone can download it. Hell, Microsoft distributes OS
> patches that are four times larger!
All of this may be seen as irrelevant since arguably DSL lacks a DE (or at
least WM) that is easier than Windows.
> One guy even got DSL running on a 486 with >32MB of RAM.
... >32 MB of RAM? that's most computers these days ;)
> And to Luke: So what if your little blinky lights on your shiny new
> laptop don't work. Same goes for the 3d hardware acceleration.
Wireless is more than mere lights, in case you didn't know this yet.
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
These are illegal.
> Keep writing letters to the hardware manufacturer to get Linux support,
> whether it is GPL drivers or scanner software that works with *nix.
Never had a problem with scanning in *nix, except HP's junk that tries to be
2-in-1 with a single driver (which means installing userland stuff to manage
splitting it up).
> Luke and Chuck need to take a few college courses on government and history
> as they are a bit mixed up.
Right... so we can read and learn the rewritten versions of history.
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