Penguin Enrolls in U.S. Schools

[Cox, Michael]

Sure, KDE will have problems, but the less bloated windows managers still
work fine.  Besides, where can you buy a licensed copy of win 3.1 nowadays?

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Hutchins [mailto:hutchins at opus1.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 10:55 AM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: Penguin Enrolls in U.S. Schools 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cox, Michael" <michael.cox at honeywell.com>
> 
> > Wired: Penguin Enrolls in U.S. Schools
> > http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,45862,00.html
> 
> "In addition, Linux runs on 486s and Pentium 75s -- fairly 
> ancient machines
> by today's standards -- which are incapable of running the 
> latest Windows
> environments."
> 
> This kind of statement bugs me.  You're not going to get the 
> latest KDE to
> run on these either - at least not at a usable speed.  You 
> could get more
> primitive Xwindows environments to run, but you could also run OS/2 or
> Windows 3.1.  You could run a console based system, but you 
> could also run
> DOS - there's a lot of good software for DOS.
> 
> Has anybody tried running "win4lin" on an 486 grade machine?
> 
> Otherwise a very good, supportive article.  I'll be using 
> some of the links
> and working to learn a linux-for-schools type desktop for 
> some kids I know.
> 
> 
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