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   -=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 30-May-2019 20:46 <=-   
      
    NB>> Still not what I'd want for my own computer   
    MK> Understood.  For me the keyboard was the deal breaker.  I'd have to   
    MK> remap some of the keys to get console switching to work ... if indeed   
    MK> I could customize a bootable linux for it to start with.  The only   
    MK> things in it's favour - the Chromebook that reared it's ugly head here   
    MK> - was the cpu and 8G of ram but that is readily duplicated in other   
    MK> similar devices.    
      
   I've never done anything with a Chromebook...    
      
    NB>> And linux seems to work well across the board...   
    MK> It most certainly can.  Even fidonet.  :-)   
      
   Yup...  I know quite a few that are using linux for various things...   
   including fidonet and other nets...  ;)   
       
    NB>> And it seems linux works very well for you...   
    MK> No doubt about it and has so since near the beginning mostly due to   
    MK> gcc and friends which was my initial attraction.  Downloadable kernel   
    MK> source has kept me a true believer.  Much fun has been had   
    MK> experimenting with oddball hardware over the years such as making   
    MK> bootable compactflash disks just before the turn of the century.  That   
    MK> is what led me to where I am today although I haven't seen or used a   
    MK> compactflash disk since.  However on this particular machine I am   
    MK> booting up a microSD card which is basically the same thing and the OS   
    MK> did evolve from the compactflash idea from way back when.  "Flash   
    MK> ttylinux of the 21st Century" came out of that idea circa 2001-ish. :-)    
      
   You've kept yourself busy there... ;)   
      
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