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Posted: Aug. 10 2004,16:23 |
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Alright, this was my situation a couple of weeks ago:
My beautiful girl-friend had been using our (well, her) PC more and more which left me standing behind her, waiting for her to go have a smoke so I could check my email. She's actually making money on the thing - I am not...
Anyway, I got this old system with a Pentium MMX 233, 64
MB RAM, 3,2 GB HD for 50 Dollars (Canadian). It had W98
preinstalled.
I couldn't go back to W98, I just couldn't. Thinking about it made me dream of blue screens and lost data. I have been there- believe me. So I met this magician in a coffeshop (yep) and he told me about Knoppix. "Just burn the CD and see if everything works", he said while he made a coin disappear, "then if you're happy, install it on your hard drive."
So I did.
I had tasted blood. Knoppix was fine but ultra-slow on my system (KDE at least) and it took about 82% of my hda1. But hey, it had recognized my network card (98 hadn't, of course") so I downloaded Debian, SuSE 9.1 (for patriotic reasons) and took out all these books from the library (Linux for Dummies etc), the older kind with like Mandrake 7.1 and others.
I tried them all; my poor hard drive. Some worked but I couldn't get Icewm to work, which I had seen in Knoppix and which was on my lists of demands. Some of them worked but didn't see my network card, I know now that my D-Link DFE 538TX had issues with older kernels.
So yesterday, I wanted to go back to Knoppix already and uninstall lots of applications to create space (I had learned how to do this in the meantime) I tried DSL. "It's a 50MB download and a blank CD", I said to myself. "Just for fun", 'cause how can an OS of that size provide me with my needs.
I am sitting on my desk, listening to an mp3-stream, browsing the web and thinking and writing: Thank-you!
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