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|    rbowman to CrudeSausage    |
|    Re: Gentoo Linux: $10K community donatio    |
|    29 Jan 26 02:22:14    |
      From: bowman@montana.com              On 29 Jan 2026 00:04:17 GMT, CrudeSausage wrote:              > That's actually how I used to get it installed for people back then. I'd       > often have a friend or family member who got some hand-me-down PC.       > Obviously, they understood nothing about it and wondered whether they       > could get some life out of it. They wanted Windows, but it was always       > going to be too slow for them, so I suggested Linux. I'd then drive over       > to the closest magazine store and get a Linux magazine specifically for       > the installation CD.              The CD is long gone but I have the third edition of 'Red Hat Linux       Unleashed' from 1998 that came with Red Hat Linux 5.2. It is 1005 pages       without a lot of filler.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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