[Eug-lug] Linux convert

[Fred James]

Allen Brown wrote:

> Time to celebrate and brag...
>
> On Sunday-Monday I visited friends in Salem who are moving to Michigan.
> They have an old computer (133MHz) running W2K.  She was afraid
> windows had gotten infected by a "security" download she had
> clicked on.  And asked about Linux.
>
> I installed it.  But it was having trouble.  It took many hours to
> read the partition table.  Long enough that I was unable to stay for
> the full install.  I decided to stay the course.
>
> So she did the last step while talking with me over the phone.
> And the install spanned three days, much of which involved waiting
> for this slow computer to contemplate its navel.
>
> Please understand that both of them are completely unsophisticated
> computer users.  But it came right up after the install.  She just
> edited her first file (from the NTFS partition).  She's tickled that
> it is working.
>
> They both wonder why this wonderful system, costing nothing, is
> almost unknown while the infection ridden windows system dominates
> the market.
>
> Of course, the future is always hard to predict.  Problems could
> come up.  But at this point we have new converts.  And they know
> a lot of people.  Bwah-ha-ha!  Ubuntu rocks!

Allen Brown
Long and painful though that may be, I presume that the 133MHz machine 
also didn't have a lot of memory, so I am not too surprised at the time 
to install - glad to hear it all went well in the end
Regards
Fred James