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Re: [LUG] Promoting SFD 2008

 

Adam Latham wrote:

>>> Unfortunately I only have one machine with a licensed copy of Windows on 
>>> there which is spare for the event.  My other half wouldn't let me use 
>>> her laptop and I figured Windows 98 and NT 4 machines will be a bit too old.
>>>
> Except, of course to showcase one of the 'Linux Lite' distros.  DSL,
> Puppy and Slax all work pretty well on my P3 500MHz 128Mb RAM heap, that
> I use to play with as a file server (until I blow it up - regularly!)

The other problem I have at the moment is transport.  I'm only just 
going to be able to get the one machine over there.

> Might be worth a shot to demonstrate that you don't need a 2.4GHz DC
> with 4Gb RAM to have a working PC?

Nah, I need at lead a quad core CPU ;-)

1 core for the OS, 3 cores for when flash goes belly up and starts 
hogging the CPU.

Rob


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