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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