I am seeding an image of Linux Mint 9 LXDE

[charles chris]

Linux Mint 9 is supported until April 2013.

It can run on anything.

Like it's name.  It sure can DANCE!

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 5:57 PM, charles chris <cccharlz-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > I am seeding using Windows NOT Linux.
> >
> > and Linux Mint 9 LXDE is a LTR.
> >
> > If I get great results from Isadora, why try another version?
> >
> > I tried Linux Mint 10 LXDE and gnome desktop but found them really
> sluggish
> > on older PCs.
> >
> > I only update what I need.
> >
> > I refuse to upgrade!
> >
> > Upgrade would only ruin a perfect thing!
>
> In practice, that seems to be a disastrous result.
>
> The set of available hardware has the habit of changing over time.  I
> was just reading a novel that referenced a "FrancoDEC LapVAX", which
> represents a quite different fork in the road from where we went; a
> world where DEC survived, but France wound up ruling the world.  At
> the time the book was written, "All the world's a VAX" was one of the
> prevailing opinions amongst Unix folk.
>
> In our world, today, the next computer you get is quite likely to have
> a NIC or a video card that Mint 9 won't know about.  So it is really
> vitally important to be able to see upgrades of important software, as
> you might get stuck with a system that will only work on hardware that
> you can't buy anymore.
>
> I get the impression that a lot of the people that want to run
> alternative OSes like Plan 9 wind up having to run them in a
> virtualization context because they have a preference for hardware
> that you can't get anymore.
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