Re: debian solution's for donated computer

2001-08-05 Thread destruss
On 5 Aug 2001, at 13:51, Matthew Davidson wrote: > > Really what's needed is a stripped-down Debian-based distro for hardware > reuse projects, with virtual packages like 'task-textnet' or > 'task-xterminalserver'. If anybody out there wants to co-operate on > assembling this, I'm in. Hi Matt

Re: debian solution's for donated computer

2001-08-05 Thread Matthew Davidson
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:30:29AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My question is what should be included on a computer that is > being donated to give a new user experience and use of an old 386 > or more? Dean > Short answer: Debian GNU/Linux. I'm involved in a similar project (http://ww

Re: debian solution's for donated computer

2001-08-03 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:30:29AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: My question is what should be included on a computer that is being donated to give a new user experience and use of an old 386 or more? Dean Define "new user experience".

Re: debian solution's for donated computer

2001-08-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:30:29AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all: > anchordesk ran a story that ms is still considering win3.1 as their > property and not to be used even for donated computers for charity > (see the article: > http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories

Re: debian solution's for donated computer

2001-08-02 Thread dman
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:30:29AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi all: | anchordesk ran a story that ms is still considering win3.1 as their | property and not to be used even for donated computers for charity =p. How nice of them. What a nice donation too. | My question is what should

Re: debian solution's for donated computer

2001-08-02 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:30:29AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My question is what should be included on a computer that is > being donated to give a new user experience and use of an old 386 > or more? Dean FreeDOS and PerfectOffice? (www.freedos.org and www.perfectoffice.com) -- Car

debian solution's for donated computer

2001-08-02 Thread destruss
Hi all: anchordesk ran a story that ms is still considering win3.1 as their property and not to be used even for donated computers for charity (see the article: http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2800646,0 0.html) My question is what should be included on a computer that is be