Kubuntu vs. Ubuntu

Greg Booth bootgr at gmail.com
Tue Sep 18 19:56:40 UTC 2007


> My first was a TI 99-4A. From there I went to a CoCo. [ Both of which I
> still have in working condition. ] Then it was an old Leading Edge 8088

and I thought my wife was a pack rat.

> XT. Ran 7MHz in TURBO Mode. Came with two 5.25 floppy drives. I changed
> them out for 3.5 floppies. Didn't even have a place, or interface, for a
> hard drive. I had to Southern Engineer one in an old scsi case with a
> separate power supply running the ribbon cable out the card slot in the
> back from the IDE card to the drive. Had DOS 3 and Windows 1. Still have
> both of those around here somewhere to. I had a "Rampat" board that I
> had 100M of memory on. The computer couldn't access all that memory
> directly so I used it as a ramdisk. The bat files I used to run

woo ramdisk ! I remember that.

> everything would copy the program from the hard drive to the ramdisk and
> run it from there. It ran much faster from the ramdisk than it could
> from the hard drive.
>
> I've got an old TRS-80 that just needs the boot floppies to run. Also
> have a Xerox double 8.5 floppy drive with a box of software on 8.5 floppies.

</hijack>

And now back to our regularly scheduled programs !!

As for Gnome / KDE, it's all preference, at least it's Linux.

G




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