Fw: Re: [seul-edu] Basic System Wish List

[Douglas Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, owner-seul-edu@seul.org wrote:

> From: Gordon Truesdale & Nena Tremblay <truechem@qc.aira.com>
> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Basic System Wish List
> 
> Matt Jezorek wrote:
> 
> > -Matt
> > 
> > P.S. sorry for this comment since it really has no
> educational reference
> 
> Matt,
> Don't apologize, we need to hear all voices ("all bugs are
> shallow when
> seen with enough eyes"). One of my takes on this 'distro' is
> to have a
> 486 version, no GUI (or minimal), just a simple menu, word
> processer,
> chess, maybe e-mail, some math, word games, bash...that's all
> folks.
> I've heard of TINY, would this be appropriate? There are
> thousands of
> 486's with 8MB ram, 20-100 MB harddrive, about 1/4 have
> CD-ROMs. Can we
> use them before they are all recycled?
> Gordon Truesdale
> 
TINY <http://tiny.seul.org> is perfectly acceptable for this;
this is exactly what it was designed for.

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