[TriLUG] lightweight linux distro/pc giveaway

[jason at monsterjam.org]

theres probably this thing called a "mirror", you should try a few others to see if you can find 
a faster  string.. ;)

Jason

On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 06:06:58PM -0400, Jim Ray wrote:
> Dude...i'm already 77% into iso download of xubuntu.  3 hrs to go at
> 14.9kB/s.  must have 2 cans and a tight string between us with those blazing
> rates.
> 
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> Jim
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of Magnus
> > Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 12:47 PM
> > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] lightweight linux distro/pc giveaway
> > 
> > Jim Ray wrote:
> > > I've got a circa win98 pc from a neighbor that won't load my favorite
> > > Ubuntu.  Any recommendations on an alternative flavor for an older
> machine?
> > 
> > 
> > I pretty regularly have installed OpenBSD on first generation pentiums
> > and it works great.  Probably far more appropriate than any popular
> > modern linux distro.
> > 
> > Linux has gotten pretty porky since its lean mean days in the underground.
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