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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Ken Martwick wrote:

> 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

For what purpose do you use the later Slackwares?  Later hardware?

So far the only thing we have used 8.1 for is to test whether a USB mouse 
worked (before plugging it into a PS/2 adaptor).  But our newest computer 
is 1999.

> 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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