NewDude
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Posts: 150
Joined: Feb. 2006 |
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Posted: Feb. 20 2006,23:58 |
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AwPhuch, I have seen the light, and the light is DSL. It is good to.
I was just talking to one of my friends right before I read your reply to mine. He was just telling me he spent over $1000 on a new machine and is excited about M$ Long Horn or Vista... whatever M$ is calling these days and how his machine is going to run it great because of how fast it is.
I laughed at him. THen I asked him, "So what are you doing to do with your old PIII 800mhz"? He asked me if I wanted for $25 dollars.
Of course I said yes. I told him, "People like you save people like me a lot of money." I went on and told him about DSL running on the P166mhz and how I am now configuring my PII 450mhz to run DSL and attempting to get it to run on my PIII 667mhz (Had problems, not DSL fault, hardware problems). And he is clueless. Of course he is one of these types of guys that think he has to have the latest thing out and of course the latest M$ OS, which he only uses maybe an 1/8 of the software that comes with the machine.
DSL has everything I need (Almost) stock. I do need to get that C/C++ compiler, and I plan on trying to get RAPIDQ Basic to run on it to. But stock it has just about all you need, if that isn't enough you can download the packages pretested. I have already downloaded Samba, VNC server, and DOOM of course. Everything runs great and I am having fun.
I told my wife last night that we are going down to 1 windoze machine and that will be for the kids and their learning games, other than that, I can run Quicken 2001 through Wine and I have gotten my wife weened off MS Office about a year ago because I started running OpenOffice full time, my wife doesn't care one way for the other, she just wants to surf the net and use Quicken. If wine won't run well on DSL, I do have a Fedora machine that it can run on. But again, Fedora is a little bloated to but it is much better then Windoze... I have became anti-Microsoft over the last 2 years really bad.
I hope others read this and support DSL. Don't throw those old machines away, you can still get a lot of use out of them.
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