On Monday 10 April 2006 00:05, John Wendel wrote: >Food for thought, > >http://news.com.com/Negroponte+Slimmer+Linux+needed+for+100+laptop/210 >0-7346_3-6057456.html?tag=nefd.lede > >* BOSTON--The One Laptop Per Child organization will use Linux on its >inexpensive machines, but the operating system suffers the same code >bloat as Windows, the project's leader said Tuesday.* > >"People aren't thinking about small, fast, thin systems," said > Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of the One Laptop Per Child ><http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Flaptop.org%2F&siteId=3&o >Id=2100-7346-6057456&ontId=1001&lop=nl.ex> nonprofit association, in a > speech at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo > <http://news.com.com/LinuxWorld+not+just+for+Linux+fans+anymore/2009- >7346_3-6056446.html?tag=nl> here. "Suddenly it's like a very fat > person (who) uses most of the energy to move the fat. And Linux is no > exception. Linux has gotten fat, too." > >Regards, >John Well, he could put cp-m on them I suppose, or freedos maybe... Talk about setting the 3rd world back to the stone age. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
