Subj : Re: eenie meenie chili beanie, the spirits are about to speak
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Nancy Backus
Date : Sat Jun 01 2019 19:38:12

-=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 30-May-2019 20:46 <=-

 NB>> Still not what I'd want for my own computer
 MK> Understood.  For me the keyboard was the deal breaker.  I'd have to
 MK> remap some of the keys to get console switching to work ... if indeed
 MK> I could customize a bootable linux for it to start with.  The only
 MK> things in it's favour - the Chromebook that reared it's ugly head here
 MK> - was the cpu and 8G of ram but that is readily duplicated in other
 MK> similar devices. 

I've never done anything with a Chromebook... 

 NB>> And linux seems to work well across the board...
 MK> It most certainly can.  Even fidonet.  :-)

Yup...  I know quite a few that are using linux for various things...
including fidonet and other nets...  ;)
 
 NB>> And it seems linux works very well for you...
 MK> No doubt about it and has so since near the beginning mostly due to
 MK> gcc and friends which was my initial attraction.  Downloadable kernel
 MK> source has kept me a true believer.  Much fun has been had
 MK> experimenting with oddball hardware over the years such as making
 MK> bootable compactflash disks just before the turn of the century.  That
 MK> is what led me to where I am today although I haven't seen or used a
 MK> compactflash disk since.  However on this particular machine I am
 MK> booting up a microSD card which is basically the same thing and the OS
 MK> did evolve from the compactflash idea from way back when.  "Flash
 MK> ttylinux of the 21st Century" came out of that idea circa 2001-ish. :-) 

You've kept yourself busy there... ;)

ttyl      neb

.... The dead batteries were given out free of charge!!!

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