Subject: Re: Installfest feedback
From: Chris Hamilton (chris@digitalalaska.com)
Date: Thu Sep 26 2002 - 12:02:52 AKDT
Tough one, eh? Linux is just all around good. Runs on old, runs on new.
Here is what I'm going to put on the flyer...
"Bring your computers, old and new to the 2002 Linux installfest.
Technicians will install software that suits your computer."
Covers all bases.
Thanks for the feedback.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin Dieters" <enderak@gci.net>
To: "Chris Hamilton" <chris@digitalalaska.com>
Cc: "Mark-Nathaniel Weisman" <mark@outlander.us>; <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: Installfest feedback
> A medium-sized install of RedHat 7.3 (2 GB of stuff or so) took about 2
> hours on my PII 266 laptop with 64 MB ram off of a 24x CD-ROM, just to
> install everything to the HD - and that doesn't count post-install
> stuff, like device setup, installing Java, OpenOffice, Mozilla, etc.
>
> Keep that in mind, that although Linux can be put on older machines,
> time contraints may prevent it. Also, we don't want people to be
> dissapointed when KDE 3 doesn't run very fast on their 486SX/25 with 16
> meg ram ;) Even with the above mentioned laptop, I try stay at the
> command line if I can help it, otherwise I spend 90% of my time waiting
> for it to crunch on the swap file. (64 megs more ram would probably
> alliviate(sp?) most of the problem though).
>
> Justin
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Hamilton" <chris@digitalalaska.com>
> Date: Thursday, September 26, 2002 10:46 am
> Subject: Re: Installfest feedback
>
> >
> > Sounds good to me. I know that I don't like working on a slow
> > computer.Maybe the distro guru's can provide some suggestions?
> >
> > Chris.
>
>
>
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