Re: Small bootable distro with Ktouch -- An Update

Maybe someone should do an interview of the teacher in a month or two for an
article. Then we could submit it to some on-line tech newspaper.

On Sunday 22 February 2004 23:19, Jeff Garland wrote:
> All -
>
> Thought you'all would be interested to know that the first batch of PC's
> will be going to the school tomorrow :-) I found a batch of power supplies
> at the Boy Scout swap meet which got me going....
>
> After experimenting with Damn Small Linux and Morphix I ended up loading
> Mandrake 9.2. As it turned out there was a perfectly good, empty, 2 Gig
> partition for me to install onto. I stripped Mandrake of almost all the
> packages and loaded it on the second partition. And I found that the
> performance was actually not bad -- as you may recall these are IBM E600
> laptops with only 32Meg of memory. Bootup is painfully slow (~4.5 minutes
> to the desktop), but once you get into KWrite or KTouch (the thing I really
> wanted) there is no noticeable delay.
>
> So with a customized background and desktop to keep things simple, this has
> turned out to be a pretty sweet solution. Light years better than typing
> on a dead computer. Anyway, chalk up another win for open source :-)
>
> And thanks again to all on the list for the great suggestions.
>
> Jeff
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