-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-
 
 WC>  I found a Redhat 7.3 release someone had hacked on the net   that
 WC> had  X-Windows, a full featured freeware word processor  by a
 WC> German author that runs on a 486 and occupies
 WC>  only 47 Meg. of magnetic real estate!!! If I had another
 WC>  100 Meg. free I'd have downloaded it!

 RJT> RH 7.3 would not likely have been happy with the amount of ram you said
 RJT> you had there,  what,  20M?  Hell,  you need 32-64M just to install
 RJT> 7.1!  From what I hear the later versions only get worse...

 WC> Well this _is_ a hacked down version.

 RJT> And probably doesn't use _their_ gui installer...  :-)

 You're catching on, people are writing their own installation
 routines.
 I looked at the one for the slimmed down Slackware 8.1
 and see no reason why I can't edit it too install
 more than just the limited /Slakware/A series packages
 it installs. AAMOF the author tells you you can
 install the entire /A series and it's obvious why
 as he used wildcards in the routine.

 WC> I sent along a .htm file to you as I found that X-Windows
 WC> on networked 486's web site.

 RJT> Got that stuff and responded to it,  a little bit ago.  I was also
 RJT> pretty tired last night...
 
 RJT> I don't know anything about that.  LILO works fine for me.  GRUB is
 RJT> nifty, too.

 Currently using loadlin from DOS boot for Slackware 3.5
 and LILO for my old CD release.

 WC> Forced myself to take a break by loading the VI editor,
 WC> some reading to do there before I love it again.

 WC> Slickest install I've ever seen. 8.1 was a snap.

 WC> Well you appear to be a bit ahead of both Charles and I

 RJT> No I'm not.

I've really only just started mere weeks ago.
The instructors at school were either fleeting like
the guy Ron who really knew his stuff and owned his
own company but finding he had no time left after
two weeks or incompetent like George who was
an investment broker and was learning a chapter ahead of 
us. "Abilities" just happened to be dropping it's
commitment to real programming in favor of Windows GUI
when I was starting the program.

 WC> unless Charles is being modest but it's a thought. I'm also going
 WC> to join the list server for Linux newbies mentioned in Basic Linux
 WC> 3.5's default bookmarks.

 RJT> I'm always interested in hearing about more mailing lists here.

 WC> Next time I fire up LINKS I'll send it along.
 
I think we should follow Charles' lead and use the list
server he recommended.
 
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