Re: While of on the subject of ideas for programs.

[Rob Bellville <rob@acol.com>]

At 12:38 7/5/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Rob, I just read your article in the Linux Journal Online. For anyone
>interested it's at http://www.linuxjournal.com/issue62. 

That article is over a year old and I've infiltrated more Linux boxes since
then! <grin>

>A number of the issues
>you are interested in have been discussed on the ComputerBank mailing-list.
>SEUL maintains the archives at http://www.seul.org/archives/computerbank.
>ComputerBank computerbank@lists.linux.org.au
>is an organization in Australia run by Kylie Davies beckster@warehouse.net
>that collects old computers, installs Linux and distributes them to people
who
>cannot afford a computer. They face many of the same problems you do. The
>people there have learned to make do with a lot less and are very good at it.
>I just picked the following out of the archives "Small X windows systems"
>http://www.seul.org/archives/computerbank/Jun-1999/msg00010.html. Following
>the links down, I came across the following where apparently somebody was
able
>to run X off a floppy.
>
> >  Using the methods above, I was able to place MacX 1.0 on a single floppy
>disk for my Mac to reach my Linux box. I could even run it off the floppy as
>well. Pretty wild, eh?


Linux never ceases to amaze me. I've been looking at some of the small
distributions at: 

http://kernelnotes.org/dist-index.html

Some of these are simply fascinating. During the summer I'm going to
download a few at school and play with them. Lots of the kids are
interested in Linux too and this is a great way to get them started without
getting their parents angry by messing up the family PC!

I've been getting some much input on this idea lately that I'm a little
overwhelmed by it all. I'm sure that anything that comes out of this will
be of benefit to many others, too. Its going to take a while to sort out
the details.

- Rob



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