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On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 02:31:10PM +0100, Brough, Tom wrote:
so how do you get linux on a i386 25Mhz with only 4Mb of ram, 85Mb HDD, NO cdrom and your only floppy disk drive is tied up with the install root image (not enough ram for a ramdisk) ?
There is a 4mb laptop HOWTO which would maybe be applicable. But I would not bother, it is *not* worth your time(or the time of someone trying to make use it). A lot of optimization and fiddling around needs to happen to make the damn thing remotely usable.
So here's my moral dilemma do I turn a blind eye to my "Free software" philosophy (and technically breaking the law) and ship the laptop with M$ win 3.1 or do I supply it with Slackware 3.3 but without any GUI support, with no training / support which doesn't show the "Free Software" offerings in there best light ?
This is not an issue with Free software. This is the issue with the hardware. Show free software in its best light by explaining its ideologies and what it is striving to do. A fight to the death with the menace(M$) to capitalism !! :) Some of my best learning experiences with computers happened with a piece of chalk and a black board.
Don't get me wrong ... There's no love lost between myself and M$, but when your attempting to supply computers to a school where the average class size is 64 and the nearest they get to a computer is the 10 to 20 Peso / hr internet cafe (lunch or computer access take your pick) you can see why I want to make sure they get the best out of whatever I can afford to send them !
New computers are cheap. Old computers are junk. Send a new computer.
1 headless server box, one hub , 14 laptops configured as X-workstations using LTSP All bundled in a box + 1 years sabbatical offering "free" training Many Happy Faces......
haha. good intentions indeed. wireless p2p will serve you better, but if i was a poor kid, i would run as fast as i could with two or three laptops under my arm.
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