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And what is more, you will know why. Plus, it's disgustingly efficient on the hardware. I took a very old laptop that was built for Windows 98 and I still run Linux on it ... yes, in full graphics mode (thanks to the magic of X/Open) ... even though the actual graphics unit on the box fritzed out completely about six months ago. (Snif! I guess "Ol' Dobbin'" is still just part of the family ...) I thought of the machine as limited, pokey, slow, until I put a specifically-optimized Gentoo on it. I mean, the thing has only half-a-meg total, and yet now it's positively snappy! Boots to ready-to-go in eleven seconds or less. It's amazing what I can still usefully do with it. You simply won't look at operating systems, or computers, the same way again. Seductive ... |
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