Slackware 8.1 also comes with a rather complete distro on a cd-rom. If your mobo can boot off cd-rom, that's all you need.
This "Linux Pill Box" thing primarily has novelty value, it's not really that useful. Even if your computer can't boot cd-roms, you'd still be better off with a floppy containing a minimal kernel, some flavor of fsck and a text editor. You can solve most immediate problems with that. Once you can boot your system again, you can take care of the rest.
Where do you get your figures from? I distinctly remember a comparison in (the dutch edition of) this month's CT magazine (which, usually, is quite a quality magazine) that showed Via's C3 to be a far worse performer than a similarly clocked Celeron.
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I'd say *especially* for non-tech-savvy people. How are they going to know which of these diskettes they're going to need?
Not to mention that you'll need at least *some* knowledge to be able to fix Linux disasters.
Slackware 8.1 also comes with a rather complete distro on a cd-rom. If your mobo can boot off cd-rom, that's all you need.
This "Linux Pill Box" thing primarily has novelty value, it's not really that useful. Even if your computer can't boot cd-roms, you'd still be better off with a floppy containing a minimal kernel, some flavor of fsck and a text editor. You can solve most immediate problems with that. Once you can boot your system again, you can take care of the rest.
Where do you get your figures from? I distinctly remember a comparison in (the dutch edition of) this month's CT magazine (which, usually, is quite a quality magazine) that showed Via's C3 to be a far worse performer than a similarly clocked Celeron.