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HPC GUY

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« on: 19 March 2003, 23:12 »
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=8382

win98 se shrunk down to 40mb
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« Reply #1 on: 19 March 2003, 23:29 »
I dunno.  As applications and OSs get feature rich, seems to me the next step is small, light and tight code.  I find myself using fewer and fewer applications over the years (seems like I wanted to play with everything when I was young, heh) and the ones I use often just get fatter and fatter.

Very soon the base OS and productivity applications will be $0 dollar commodities.  After that we'll start seeing refactoring that speeds up apps, removes junk code, but offer few new features.

Soon after that we'll get $99 PCs.
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« Reply #2 on: 20 March 2003, 01:09 »
Dat's nothing, I can get Linux to fit on a floppy disk.

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« Reply #3 on: 20 March 2003, 02:21 »
Funny you mention that, I tried to use that rescue diskette just yesterday.  Ever tried to recover a root password on Mandrake box that was installed in 'paranoid' mode?  Blech.

Unfortunately I had reiserfs installed and it isn't supported in that kernel.

Any any case, I'm just babbling....nice set of tools on the disk though.
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« Reply #4 on: 20 March 2003, 14:29 »
quote:
Originally posted by HPC GUY:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=8382

win98 se shrunk down to 40mb



one thing that cheered me up was this advert which appeared on the page you linked to (about windows) when i clicked your link:


Installing Linux -
Blindingly Easy


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« Reply #5 on: 21 March 2003, 00:16 »
lol, QNX fits on a floppy and you get networking, a browser, GUI and text editor  :D
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« Reply #6 on: 21 March 2003, 01:28 »
Linux fits on my hard disk, I get networking, true multiuser, multitasking, a GUI, graphical web browsers, compilers, desktops, mail clients, newsreaders, chat programs, graphics editors, text editors, office programs, games, and other stuff.

And that works for me!

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« Reply #7 on: 21 March 2003, 01:30 »
quote:
Originally posted by Microbob:
Funny you mention that, I tried to use that rescue diskette just yesterday.  Ever tried to recover a root password on Mandrake box that was installed in 'paranoid' mode?  Blech.

Unfortunately I had reiserfs installed and it isn't supported in that kernel.

Any any case, I'm just babbling....nice set of tools on the disk though.



try booting a slackware cd, and you wont be able to recover the password because its in md5, if you use a program to make an new password into a md5 key then its just putting it in the /etc/shadow (or somthing)

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« Reply #8 on: 23 March 2003, 20:58 »
yes, it is somewhat widely known that qnx will fit on a floppy comfortably. and it is quite portable. i think before any programer can use a modern computer they should learn to program on cramped environments and learn to do it bug free.
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