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Thatâs not bloated, thatâs clinically obese
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| Quite clearly Iâve been working with machines
| with no more than 192Mb for too long. And
| running an entire system on under 20Mb on a
| daily basis has my perspective skewed. So if
| youâre a Gnome user and youâre bristling
| right now, feel free to remind me that my
| expectations are too far gone to make
| comparisons. Tell me I need to move out of
| 1996. Tell me itâs time to look for a real
| desktop, and not a hacked, whacked
| arrangement of console programs on a
| framebuffer screen. Tell me itâs time to face
| reality.
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http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/thats-not-bloated-thats-clinically-obese/
Switching to Slackware
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| I've heard that Slackware has a lot less
| bloat than most other Linux distros, and my
| experience certainly bears that out. Compared
| to Xubuntu, my new Slackware install with
| XFCE is lightning-fast. As of right now I'm
| running slackpkg to update my system and
| while it may not be as flexible and powerful
| as apt, and not have a nice graphical front-
| end, it's perfectly usable and I'm happy with
| it. I'm used to sudo from both Ubuntu and OS
| X so I've set that up, and all in all I'm
| very pleased with my new system.
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http://farbeyondtheedgeofreason.blogspot.com/2010/03/switching-to-slackware.html
Recent:
Linux Free Operating Systems â Ubuntu, Debian, Mandriva Installations on an Old PC
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| For a long time I have always heard of Linux
| the free operating system, and have enjoyed
| many of the free applications that have been
| ported over to the Windows platform. I
| finally had a opportunity to take some
| antique computers and install Linux onto
| them, and found out how simple and sometimes
| complicated it can be to get up and running
| with it.
|
| Linux really took hold when web hosting SQL
| servers and HTTP hosting applications saved
| companies thousands of dollars from paying
| the Microsoft and Oracle corporations
| connection fees that could easily going into
| the thousands of dollars. So instead running
| a linux server to serve up their databases
| made much more economic sense and that is
| why there has been a insurgence of the free
| operating system over the last years.
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http://www.bestsyndication.com/?q=20100301_installing_free_linux_operating_system_ubuntu_debian_mandriva_fedora_on_an_old_pc.htm
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