RE: kitchen

["Dale W Hodge" <dwh@neuralmatrix.org>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Heather [mailto:star@betelgeuse.starshine.org]
> >
> > Don't be chicken
>
> Again, it's my system, not yours.  I actually depend on my laptop being in
> well behaved order for my work.  I therefore treat it more carefully even than
> the desktop system I use for prepping the Linux Gazette work I do... since
> perl will run on anything, and everybody, even the Borg of Redmond, have web
> browsers, but what I need from my laptop is (1) reliability while amidst
> my consulting clients (2) a good place to keep some of my board meeting notes
> (3) a friendly system when all others fail.
>
> Given two out of 3 of these call for stability, I'm being -prudent- not
> chicken.  If I need to apply something new to it, I test it on the backup
> image eating some of my desktop's disk space first.

If you just need a current version of wine, add this to your apt sources.list:
deb http://www.wineqh.com/~ovek/ stable/
You'll get the latest stable build of wine built to run on a 'potato' system.

--dwh

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Dale W Hodge - dwh@neuralmatrix.org
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Air Capital Linux User's Group  (ACLUG)
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