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Re: [LUG] 256 mb rambus computer

 

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Paul Sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/02/11 19:49, Grant Sewell wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:38:45 +0000
>> Paul Sutton wrote:
>>
>>> hi
>>>
>>> ideas wanted please on how to do this
>>>
>>> i was thinking as this is going to be too low spec to run anything
>>> graphical
>>
>> What?!  256Mb of RAM being too little to run a GUI?!  Nonsense!
>>
> ok fair point,  as peoplet rightly pointed out X has run in 4 to 8 mb.  I
> guess i am used to gnome and kde,  as graphical interfaces, :)
>
> end of the day a computer to burn cd's would be useful, make it easy for
> someone to use, even better,  do this without a gui and it does show that
> linux can run on anything, be useful and even without a normal gui you can
> get something useful out of it,
>
>
>
> paul

I am certain there are heaps of great uses for such a CLI computer.
:-) shame i cant think of any right now lol ;-) After all, at one time
(probably before I was born) there was *only* the command line! dun
dun dun! lol

roly :-p

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