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The arrival of easy to use drag and drop GUI desktops for Linux have come at a price. Though it is arguably better than XP on similar hardware, performance regretably requires fairly recent hardware, a departure from the past. This link discusses this dilemma and suggests solutions for those who wish to still get life out of their 486. I for one, applaud this notion.

Upgrading Linux? Periodically I blow away old releases and reinstall from scratch. This ensures a clean install and makes sure old files are not left laying around. However, once you are running the installer telling it to reformat, do you remember which partitions contain your valuable data? Rather than reformatting the wrong partition by accident, I have gotten in the habit of printing out the existing filesystem configuration prior to the reinstall. Here is a quick and dirty bash script that I use to capture the useful filesytem configuration data.

The Festival sound synthesis project. RPMs built on RH8.0: festival-1.4.2-15.src.rpm   festival-1.4.2-15.i386.rpm   festival-devel-1.4.2-15.i386.rpm"   Note: requires tetex-1.0.7-57 and tetex-fonts-1.0.7-57.

Free OCR packages. Clara OCR   GOCR

Streamed USB Video Grabber NT1003 Driver  

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