Red Hat Commits To MIT's $100 Laptop

[John Wendel]

Rickey Moore wrote:
> 
> --- John Wendel <john.wendel at metnet.navy.mil> wrote:
>  
> 
>>I've never tried it, but <http://damnsmalllinux.org> looks 
>>interesting. I think I'll dig out the old 350MHz AMD from the junk
>>box 
>>and give it a try.
> 
>  
> Jeeez John, you're making me feel bad. I'm running a K5 AMD 350MHz
> right now! 128 Megs of ram helps. It's nowhere near as fast as the
> newest stuff... but it does what I want it to do. And, it was plenty
> cheap, and no probs installing Fedora 4, in text mode. I am not using
> it as a server though, just as a client machine, etherneted to a
> router connected to a DSL modem. Damn, this is just like an AA
> meeting where I bare my deepest secrets "My name is Ric, and I'm
> really cheap and run really old hardware."    <sobs> I get alot of
> group hugs this way. <g> Ric
> 
> 
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I'm really cheap too! My last AMD Athlon CPU + motherboard cost $89.00 
at Frys. The rest of the box came from computer junk stores (luckily I 
live near Silicon Valley which has a great number of "computer 
surplus" stores).

If you aren't near somwhere that has a lot of computer junk stores, I 
highly recommend <http://surpluscomputers.com>. I've bought a lot of 
stuff from them without any problems.

Regards,

John