__/ [ William Poaster ] on Wednesday 28 June 2006 13:12 \__
> This message was posted on Usenet, NOT JLAforums, & on Wed, 28 Jun 2006
> 12:53:54 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> __/ [ William Poaster ] on Wednesday 28 June 2006 11:41 \__
>>
>>> Austrumi Live-CD is a complete linux OS, which is only 50MB & fits
>>> onto a mini (business size card) CD. Based on Slackware, it uses
>>> Enlightenment as a desktop. On booting, it copies itself into RAM for
>>> faster application access, & thus allows the CD drive to be available for
>>> other tasks.
>>>
>>> http://cyti.latgola.lv/ruuni/index_en.html
>>>
>>> Downloaded from sourceforge:
>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/austrumi/
>>
>> Your mentioning of the compactness of this distro reminded me of this.
>>
>>
http://channels.lockergnome.com/linux/archives/20060623_dsln_damn_small_linux_gets_bigger.phtml
>>
>> Puppy is growing to be a dog, size-wise and requirements-wise. It even
>> includes Opera 9, which unlike SeaMonkey, supports the most modern
>> standards, but raises the minimal resource bar. I guess there is a novelty
>> tradeoff which, in due time, will make old hardware obsolete.
>
> I would suggest that as floppy drives become obsolete, perhaps these
> mini-cds would start replacing them? Personally I still use floppies,
> mostly to try out GRUB configurations before writing to the mbr. That way,
> I know the already installed os(s) will still boot. :-)
Many workstations no longer come with floppy disk drives (1.44"), as Mark
pointed out earlier this morning. This no longer applies to low-end models
and laptops where size is a premium factor, either. The assumption is that
USB media and networks obviate the need for soft and by-all-means-exposed
magnetic storage that's expensive (per volume), slow, and ineffective.
If floppies were introduced as a novel technology tomorrow, they would be
ridiculed. But the same principles apply to anything in technology and
design, which must always remain state-of-the-art in order to be admired.
One day we will laugh at the possibility of setting up a new partition --
one which runs that insecure and fragile O/S once called Microsoft Windows.
Pondered about Acorn recently...?
Best wishes,
Roy
PS - yesterday I found a redemption to the absence of a 1.44-inch drive in my
home computer (it took 10 months to mind). 10 quid bought me a card reader,
which I can use inconjunction with SD cards which I have had for years. All
my floppies are in storage, far from reach.
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