Linux still largely invisible in the marketplace

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 05:16:32PM -0500, Paul King wrote:
> My second Linux CD I purchased (after TransAmeritech) was an Yggdrasil
> live install CD which had kernel version 1.2.13. Back then, my 486
> computer was so cramped for HD space on 4 MB of RAM that the only way I
> could look at X-Windows was from such a live CD. And back then I was
> using a CD-ROM which had its own IDE card, and was 1x speed. The window
> manager, I believe was twm (it could have been feeble, but I think not).
> But, as you might imagine, this was sloooow! I later sold the CD along
> with other stuff to another computer enthusiast.

It probably wasn't ide.  It was probably either teac, mitsubi or
creative labs interface.

> Now, I complain if I can't get Evolution to talk to my Palm Pilot under
> KDE.

We are so spoiled. :)

Len Sorensen
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