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to: Charles Angelich
from: Wayne Chirnside
date: 2002-12-20 17:40:00
subject: Re: Mini-Linux

-=> CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-


 CA> I think Linux is great fun at little to no cost. No downside I
 CA> can see.

Can't say I see one. Haven't spent a nickle on hardware
in 6 years and this system runs Linux downloaded 
free from any of hundreds of sites.

 CA> --8<--cut

 WC> Mobility impaired is not relavent where computers are
 WC> concerned.

 CA> It's back-at-ya now as an MP3 but it wouldn't reduce as much as
 CA> I had anticipated. Not sure why but it's still 324k or so in
 CA> size? Smaller than over 1 meg but I had expected closer to 100k.

I got it and snagged a public domain DOS player off 
of Simtel which does indeed work though it requires
a small package in addition to enable it.
Total setup time 10 minutes, simple effective command line 
interface.
 
 CA> There are two SurvPC elists. The address
 CA> on the webpage was to the tmonroe listing and AFAIK Steven
 CA> dropped that one but remains active on the SoftCon elisting.

 CA> Steve is active at SURVPC{at}SOFTCON.COM :

 CA> http://www.softcon.com/archives/survpc.html

 CA> The webpage to arrange to receive the elist :

 CA> http://www.softcon.com/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=survpc&A=1

 CA> I don't recall using this website.  I think it can also be done by
 CA> sending email to LISTSERV{at}SOFTCON but I don't recall the details,
 CA> it's been awhile ago (for me).

Saved to file, thanks for everything.
 
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