Fixes was 4: the good, the bad and the broken

Draciron Smith draciron at gmail.com
Fri Apr 30 06:37:43 BST 2010


> I had to order it from Canada as no outlet I could find in the US was
> selling the Linux versions, and I don't do MSWormOS.  I'd have sooner gone
> without than bought an MSWormOS machine.  Even still, I upgraded it too
> Gentoo, compiling the netbook image on a 32-bit chroot on my amd64
> machine.  1.5 gig is good as I don't run into swap much if at all, even
> with the kernel set to 100 swappiness, and I have a decent amount of
> memory available to use as cache.  When I'm untethered, I run laptop mode,
> and the extra cache keeps me from having to spin up the disk so much.
>
> I don't know what the newer MSWormOS 7 slaveryware, Poulsbo no-proper-
> freedomware-driver models run, memory-wise.  I'm glad I got mine while the
> getting was good!

I bought my laptops specifically from Dell because they were selling
Linux pre-installed. I was NOT going to let M$ get a penny of my money
if I could help it.
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