Re: freedomization task list [was: Re: Dangerous precedent being set - possible serious violation of the GPL]
On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Jordi wrote:
> Well, nowdays it is. There's another active thread in debian-devel talking
> about optimization of debs for pentium, etc. As in that case, using emacs to
> emulate our new pico would leave many Debian-on-386SX out of it. We know
> Debian works decently on very old machines (like these 386SX-20Mhz) and it'd
> be a pitty to loose this "feature".
I truly agree. I think that this is one area which people are always too
willing to ignore. But I'm sorry, one of the -major- advantages that
GNU/Linux has over Winders is that it will not only run, but -run without
swapping... and run -well-- on even a little teensy '386SX.
>
> Jordi
>
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