| Great suspense on Swedish radio
I just listened to a popular science program on Swedish Radio. They had
invited some guy with a boxed set of SUSE Linux 9.0 to the studio and he is
supposed to try installing this Linux distro on a three years old computer.
This week we were told what the outside of the box looked like (it was
described as being quite similar to other shrink wrapped software) and we
also learned what a Linux distro is. Building distros can apparently be
compared to a cooking competiton. I.e. you have some basic raw materials
(the Linux kernel) and some spices and stuff (a collection of carefully
selected open source software and perhaps one or two of your own secret
ingredients - yast?). With these you use your talents and imagination to
prepare a tasty meal (a Linux distribution).
In next week's show the guy with the SUSE 9.0 box will insert CD No. 1 in
the computer's CD drive and hit the start button. Then we will all be told
what happens next. Great suspense :):).
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Olav P.
Linux 2.4.20-4GB-athlon
10:43pm up 12 days 6:26, 2 users, load average: 0.33, 0.40, 0.44
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