__/ [ Rex Ballard ] on Friday 19 May 2006 23:02 \__
> Quick Recap
>
> He has a nice Linux-friendly laptop
> - with a 10 gigabyte hard drive,
> but Windows is taking up 8 gigabytes.
> - He had about 1.8 gigabytes left.
Before some space leaks take their toll and scandisk.exe supposedly 'saves
the day(=space)'.
> He only used "Free" versions,
> - none of the commercially supported versions.
> - Complined about OpenSuse because it didn't have the Prism2
> driver.
Either he is a miser, or he simply prefers to demonstrate what is achievable
in a [free-as-in-free-beer] distro. He might not contribute anything in
return, apart from this article.
> The funny thing is that he was able to like
> - two distributions (OpenSUSE and Gentoo)
>
> Gentoo only installed up to shell, then he installed the rest (X11,
> desktop, gui apps).
>
> Things have certainly changed.
In what sense? You sure know better than me. *smile*
Best wishes,
Roy
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