Ubuntu on a 486?

[Martin Marcher]

Am 13.12.2006 um 07:43 schrieb Adriano Varoli Piazza:

> That is what I'd expect to gain from the decision. It's an obvious
> answer too. Better gstreamer  dvd support (at least some,
> gstreamer0.10-dvd doesn't yet exist, AFAIK), or better evince  pdf
> printing support (only now being fixed, bug reported by me), "a better
> GNOME desktop" (always room for more polishing). Lots of stuff.

No pun intended but to me it sounds like you'd be better of with a  
distro that is more self made (customized). Maybe I'm a bit too old  
school (already ? - damn I'm getting really old) but printing,  
especially to pdfs has worked since I use linux, and has become  
especially easy with cups.

Been a while since I had to deal with *cough* paper and *cough*  
analog data :) but I'm pretty sure I'd figure a quite usefull  
printing setup out again in less than half a day which includes all  
options I need (4 on 1 pages, yada yada, the usual stuff). About  
support, I'm doing my part and I am asking for written confirmation  
in the store that the hardware will work flawlessly with linux or  
I'll get my money back (even convinced a guy one time that the  
company has to get me a equivalent product if theirs wouldn't work,  
unfortunately it worked - I wonder what they'd come up with).

I do think that there lies much more in educating users than you  
think. For the desktop I'm using apple at the moment and have various  
servers to maintain, most of them now run ubuntu, and why?

Because of it's release cycles
Because of it's 6.06 LTS

We're even thinking about commercial support, so I'm using this old  
hardware (it's not my hardware but still) and I'm pretty sure that  
within the next 3 month's we'll have a support contract. Which in  
turn makes me pay the developers which in turn (you started talking  
about developers that get paid) would make my vote count more than  
yours (assuming you download ubuntu and don't buy it).

martin

PS: the mail could be a little confusing I'm going to be nearly 24h  
awake....well looking at the clock I AM 24H AWAKE. NEED COFFEE NEED  
CIGARETTES - so please be patient, I really didn't want to offend you  
even if some parts could sound like that, and I'm too lazy to read  
thru my mail again :)