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Subject: Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?
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On Wednesday 21 January 2004 11:07 am, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 06:32:42AM +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> > : Can you run a basic X-Windows system on it?
> >
> > Definitely.
>
> Then I think you should use your laptop as what it is meant to
> be: a mobile workstation.

If feasible, "mobile, music workstation".     ;-)

> Even if you can't install the big things like gnome, kde, mozilla
> and openoffice, there are hundreds of small ported apps, with
> which work can be done (in the garden, kitchen, on the train or
> whereever you like).
>
> Regards,
>
> Uli.
>
> > jm