Hi Erik, I would be interested in the Sony and Apple if possible. I realize that I am being a bit greedy in asking for two of them, however I have 5 children, and they fight constantly for the computer at home. Do you think they would be able to handle Cento's or Fedora or Ubuntu? Eric ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Mitchell" <erik.mitchell at gmail.com> To: "TCLUG Mailing List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 8, 2010 8:29:12 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Taylor Swift Linux I have a few older laptops which I'll give away for free to a good home -- they'd be good for playing with a lightweight distro such as this. They are: - Sony Vaio PCG-561L (Pentium III, circa 2002) - Compaq nc6220 (Pentium 4, circa 2004) - Apple iBook (model A1005) (PowerPC, circa 2003?) The Sony and Compaq both have issues with their DVD drives -- not sure if it's software or hardware related. Otherwise, there are other ways to get an OS installed on them. Saturday would be a good day for them to be picked up. It'd rather not put any time into any of these, so I'm giving them away "as is". I won't accept them back. Email me if you're interested. -Erik On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Thomas Lunde <tlunde at gmail.com> wrote: > Jason - > > Free advice is worth what you pay for it, but I suggest that you find something other than "Taylor Swift Linux" for a name. I'd guess that Swift Linux would be OK, as Swift could be considered an adjective instead of necessarily a reference to someone famous. > > See this for why: > http://www.citmedialaw.org/legal-guide/using-name-or-likeness-another > > Thomas > > > > On Dec 7, 2010, at 10:27 AM, Jason Hsu, embedded engineer, Linux user wrote: > >> Swift Linux 0.0.2 is now available. There are now four different editions: >> 1. Diet Swift Linux: no OpenOffice >> 2. Swift Linux: includes OpenOffice >> 3. Forensic Swift Linux: Diet Swift Linux plus forensic tools >> 4. Taylor Swift Linux: regular Swift Linux with special wallpaper and a Taylor Swift audio clip that plays at startup >> >> If you like Ubuntu or Linux Mint but are scraping by with only 512 MB of RAM, you need to try Swift Linux, which requires just 128 MB of RAM (256 MB recommended), only 1/4 that of Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, and other leading distros. >> >> If you like Puppy Linux but wish it had a bigger repository, you also need to try Swift Linux, which is fully compatible with the Debian software repository. >> >> If you know any Taylor Swift fans, please direct them to Taylor Swift Linux. >> >> -- >> Jason Hsu >> Creator of Swift Linux >> http://www.swiftlinux.org/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Erik K. Mitchell -- Web Developer erik.mitchell at gmail.com erik at ekmitchell.com http://ekmitchell.com/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list