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HPC GUY:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=8382

win98 se shrunk down to 40mb

microbob:
I dunno.  As applications and OSs get feature rich, seems to me the next step is small, light and tight code.  I find myself using fewer and fewer applications over the years (seems like I wanted to play with everything when I was young, heh) and the ones I use often just get fatter and fatter.

Very soon the base OS and productivity applications will be $0 dollar commodities.  After that we'll start seeing refactoring that speeds up apps, removes junk code, but offer few new features.

Soon after that we'll get $99 PCs.

slave:
Dat's nothing, I can get Linux to fit on a floppy disk.

http://www.toms.net/rb/

microbob:
Funny you mention that, I tried to use that rescue diskette just yesterday.  Ever tried to recover a root password on Mandrake box that was installed in 'paranoid' mode?  Blech.

Unfortunately I had reiserfs installed and it isn't supported in that kernel.

Any any case, I'm just babbling....nice set of tools on the disk though.

Calum:

quote:Originally posted by HPC GUY:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=8382

win98 se shrunk down to 40mb
--- End quote ---


one thing that cheered me up was this advert which appeared on the page you linked to (about windows) when i clicked your link:


Installing Linux -
Blindingly Easy

[ March 20, 2003: Message edited by: Calum: Member # 81 ]

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