Penguin Enrolls in U.S. Schools

zscoundrel zscoundrel at kc.rr.com
Tue Aug 21 03:15:51 CDT 2001


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>> "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.
> 
Yes, but can you run a decent file/print/email server or firewall on DOS 
x.x or 'doze 3.1?  And if you could,  it probably would NOT! run more 
than a few hours between crashes!!!




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