[TriLUG] why run open source OS on oddball old hardware? (LONG DIATRIBE)

Michael Mueller mmueller at ss7box.com
Wed Jun 19 16:36:41 EDT 2002


On Wednesday 19 June 2002 15:03, Thunder Bear reputedly wrote:

> So if you feel your geek life is missing a little something, that life
> is just too routine with your nice stable athlon machine, pick a
> computer out of the garbage and spice up your life a bit.

To succeed you really have to have more than a rudimentary knowledge of the 
various loaders and the machine and the disk, etc.  Loading oddballs forces 
you to get that knowledge.  I've believe that if you know the loader and 
initializers, then you *know* the machine.

-- 
Mike Mueller
www.ss7box.com



More information about the TriLUG mailing list