From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262259AbTJOGHt (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 02:07:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262375AbTJOGHs (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 02:07:48 -0400 Received: from mail.storm.ca ([209.87.239.66]:31657 "EHLO mail.storm.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262259AbTJOGHr (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 02:07:47 -0400 Message-ID: <3F8CE3EB.8040907@storm.ca> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:06:35 +0800 From: Sandy Harris User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Unbloating the kernel, was: :mem=16MB laptop testing References: <20031014143047.GA6332@ncsu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20031014143047.GA6332@ncsu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu wrote: > Let me concur with the sentiments on this thread. Me too. > ... There are many people who will never be able to afford > to buy a computer but could find someone to give them one of these > "hopelessy outdated" machines for nothing. Some people may be able to get more than one. A year or two back a peniless friend of mine built quite a nice environment for himself with two 486 boxes and a pile of SPARC IIs. Also, there are server applications that don't need much. For example, a firewall and NAT box for an ADSL line, or a print spooler or ... You could even build a Beowulf out of such machines http://stonesoup.esd.ornl.gov/ > If we can ensure that > Linux keeps working on these machines, it will be a good thing. Indeed.