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| yeah, I've been trying, only problem is I can't pay for an ISP, I have to wait for my parent's, with luck we;ll switch to worldnett in a month or so. is there any way to decrease the screen size some programs take up so you can actually see the (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) In Linux, you mean? Probably not -- a lot of X Windows programs assume that you're running at high resolutions. (Which are typical on Unix workstations...) (26 years ago, 17-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| yes, I meant linux/x-windows. It took forever to get it set up and I've been playing with it but haven't really seen that much I can do with it. I'm thinking about switching back to windows 95 so I can set up a network (I'm not ready to do the multi (...) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) A multi-os network is no problem, as long as you use TCP/IP. Your Linux box would make a nice server. (26 years ago, 18-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| not a 486 with only 12 megs of ram and a 300 meg hardrive, Linux isn't that efficient, is it?? Matthew Miller wrote in message ... (...) (URL) Matt Marshall $%#$% Vacuum Cleaners Always get my pieces!!! Matt's Lego Page (URL) (26 years ago, 18-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Linux on a 386/25 with 4 MB RAM and a 40 MB harddrive beats a Cray, right? ;-) --Todd (26 years ago, 18-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Sure. If you're not running X Windows, Linux will run wonderfully on such a system. (26 years ago, 19-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) :) well, that's pushing it. Another 8 MB of RAM and 80 more of disk, and you'd have a usable system. Not very usable, but.... When the ISP I used to work for was under attack by system crackers once, we set up a system like that to server as a (...) (26 years ago, 19-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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