[conspire] Re: conspire Digest, Vol 13, Issue 6

[bruce coston]

OW!, 17" mon. died, 20" mac mon. does not work,
borrowed 1 from neighbor 2do this, , guess i/we should
get the 20 fixed as an old mac mon, it should last
long before needing next fix, call 735-1971, (408) iff
u have great info bout where 2 get this kinda prob.
fixed cheap/fast.--- conspire-request at linuxmafia.com
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> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 13:28:42 -0700
> From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> Subject: Re: [conspire] want a 386 BOARD etc.
> To: conspire at linuxmafia.com
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> Quoting bruce coston (jane_ikari at yahoo.com):
> 
> [text from your friend David Christensen]
> 
> > It should be able to run Linux or *BSD, if you can
> find a distribution
> > that will install into 8 MB.
> 
> Which is actually a bit of a challenge.  
> 
> "Small Linux" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Admin has
> a list of possibles.
> With 8MB RAM, no math chip, and a 400MB hard drive,
> you could then run a
> single-purpose Linux (or BSD) box, such as a
> firewall, or a small
> SMTP/IMAP/POP mail server.  But understand that the
> machine's ancient
> (probably about 15 years old), and so is in imminent
> danger of hardware
> failure.  The first essential part that fails, it's
> a doorstop.  (It
> makes no sense to spend money to fix, let alone
> expand, a PC that old.)
> 
> Because of the latter reason, I'd say don't use it
> for any function you
> need to be reliable.
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 23:33:11 -0700 (PDT)
> From: bruce coston <jane_ikari at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [conspire] permissions on different
> distributions
> To: Randall Abel <rabel1 at comcast.net>,
> conspire at linuxmafia.com,	sam
> 	michlin <smichlin2 at yahoo.com>
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> trying to live with several installs and the hassle
> of
> setting permissions, gives me a temporary conclusion
> that only Mandrake is acceptable of what i put on my
> box. Eventually i suspect some other distro will get
> working so well that i go through permission hassle
> and it becomes my permanent. i hope pclinuxos,
> mandrake based, has the same permissions, asking for
> root password is much nicer than go login as root
> and
> i'm not gonna teach my users the command line so su
> root isn't good enough.
>      By the way, know of any special dangers re
> synaptic, i just put it on my mandrake, i hope it
> saves some rpm hassle, it seemed to want some kind
> of
> apt packages. with arch almost working, i'm very
> hopeful and i may get printer 2 going under
> mandrake!
> 
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