Re: [tlug] Please help with e-learning of Linux OS.

[Josh Glover <tlug@example.com>]

Quoth Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon (Tue 2004-07-20 01:38:36PM +0900):

> Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> 
> >   rubioj> Please provide information for hardware for Linux OS.
> >
> >Any old Windows box will do, and I do mean old.

[...]

> >For example, the mailserver that passed your message to me is an '97
> >Pentium running at 120MHz with 80MB of RAM.
> 
> Just a quick note on my hardware experience with a few low-end machines.

It is important to realise that Linux has more applications that just
the desktop. In fact, the desktop is probably where Linux is the *least*
popular.

Steve gives an example of a mailserver above, and I know plenty of people
who use machines of that calibre for things like firewalls, routers, etc.

-- 
Josh Glover

Gentoo Developer (http://dev.gentoo.org/~jmglov/)
Tokyo Linux Users Group Listmaster (http://www.tlug.jp/)

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