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  • From: James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL3 MagicPoint
  • Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 19:52:21 -0500 (CDT)

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> 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.

Go BL! Go Linux! Corporate behemoths beware . . . I don't suppose
he made the mistake of asking what sort of laptop you were using?

James




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