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[Ken Martwick <kenm AT surfbest.nrt>]

I agree that BL is still useful to me though I sometimes
run Slackware 9.1 and 10.0 on CPU's up to Athlon.
Ken Martwick

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 02:40:41PM -0000, Ian Scott wrote:
> 
> > >
> > > With PCs becomming so cheap is there a need for 
> > > Projects like BL ?
> > 
> (snip)
> > 
> > BL3 is useful to me.  I know of no other Linux that
> > would make my laptop so useful.  So I make BL3 available
> > to anyone who is in a similar position, who has a perfectly 
> > good 486 or early Pentium and would like to put a useful 
> > Linux on it.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Steven
> > 
> 
> 
> BL3 is great I believe, even for more powerful desktops .Mine's a pentium
> II, 5 years old - not brilliant, but will happily run other linux variants.
> But I love BL because
> a) It loads very quick - about 10 sec from power on to surfing - much better
> than any other OS
> b) It is simple.  I can easily understand how it works - makes a great
> springboard for learning about how the OS works.
> 
> I like to have my PC switched off when I am not using it, so boot time
> really matters to me.  If I want to do other things, I may well boot into
> debian, beos or windows - but BL3 is a good quick tool for 90% of what I
> want to do.
> 
> 
> Keep up the good work, Steven!
> 
> 
> 
> 
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