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  • From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [BL] BL3 MagicPoint
  • Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:02:31 +1200

I did my submission to the Council yesterday using BL3 to
run MagicPoint on a 486-50 laptop with 12mb RAM. It ran
smooth as silk. No problems. It booted straight into
Linux using LILO and then automatically displayed the
first slide (/etc/inittab executed startx instead of sh
and then ~/.xinitrc ran mgp without a wm).

The guy who followed me ran Windows PowerPoint and took
forever to get it up and running. The Council waited
while Windows booted and he logged in. They waited while
he loaded PowerPoint and selected his presentation file.
All in all, it took him 4-5 minutes to get up and running
(it took me around 30 seconds).

I was also pleased to see that the response time on my
clunky $10 laptop was just as fast as his ultra-slim
$1000 laptop.

Cheers,
Steven








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