Doesn't the FSF get the software authors to assign their rights to the FSF itself? So the FSF then have legal capacity to act on behalf of the authors.
I was running Fedora Core 2 on my PII 250mhz machine until quite recently when the power supply went pooft. But I had 300 MB RAM in it.
I have also installed Red Hat 9 on less powerful machines (486, P1) with just 32MB RAM using the installer developed by the RULE project http://www.rule-project.org/en/ (old URL, their website appears to be down ATM). The current version of their installer is capable of installing FC3 AFAIK.
REXX runs on the AS/400 (IBM's midrange server line); I believe it was originally intended to replace CL, the (command and) control language for As/400. However, the users objected to that as CL is a great language for utilities and such, so IBM added REXX and didn't take away CL. If you want an interactive interpreter you have to do a PRPQ to request one from IBM (or write your own) but OS/400 will happily run your REXX script even without one.
Also, Mike Cowlishaw wrote NetREXX which is REXX running on the Java VM. It was featured in an IBM DeveloperWorks series on dynamic languages for the Java platform quite recently.
The RULE (Run Up-to-date Linux Everywhere) Project http://rule-project.org/en/index_old.php/ have had good success in installing Fedora on old PC's using a custom installer (their main site appears to be down at the moment, the link is to the old site).
http://www.vum.at/ have used the RULE installer to install Linux on computers donated to schools in the Congo.
I teach the AS/400 elective track at a small computer college.
It's easy to learn how to use and operate the AS/400. That's not just my opinion developed over the course of 25 years of using the AS/400 and its predecessors going back to the S/34--the students in my Introduction to AS/400 class would agree with me.
SQL and the other data utilities provided by IBM are also easy to pick up--seniors without any AS/400 background learned to use these in a single term.
What they find challenging is using the development tools: the SEU editor, IBM's data language DDS and most specially the RPG programming language.
Maybe these utilities are better on the iSeries--the box I use is pretty old (OS/400 version V3R7).
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logic classes are taught by fuzzy-minded idiot philosophy professors.
Not all of them--for instance, Manfred von Thun, professor of Philosophy at La Trobe University created the programming language Joy
Doesn't the FSF get the software authors to assign their rights to the FSF itself? So the FSF then have legal capacity to act on behalf of the authors.
IANAL, this is just a wild-assed guess.
I was running Fedora Core 2 on my PII 250mhz machine until quite recently when the power supply went pooft. But I had 300 MB RAM in it.
I have also installed Red Hat 9 on less powerful machines (486, P1) with just 32MB RAM using the installer developed by the RULE project http://www.rule-project.org/en/ (old URL, their website appears to be down ATM). The current version of their installer is capable of installing FC3 AFAIK.
REXX runs on the AS/400 (IBM's midrange server line); I believe it was originally intended to replace CL, the (command and) control language for As/400. However, the users objected to that as CL is a great language for utilities and such, so IBM added REXX and didn't take away CL. If you want an interactive interpreter you have to do a PRPQ to request one from IBM (or write your own) but OS/400 will happily run your REXX script even without one.
Also, Mike Cowlishaw wrote NetREXX which is REXX running on the Java VM. It was featured in an IBM DeveloperWorks series on dynamic languages for the Java platform quite recently.
The RULE (Run Up-to-date Linux Everywhere) Project http://rule-project.org/en/index_old.php/ have had good success in installing Fedora on old PC's using a custom installer (their main site appears to be down at the moment, the link is to the old site).
http://www.vum.at/ have used the RULE installer to install Linux on computers donated to schools in the Congo.
I teach the AS/400 elective track at a small computer college.
It's easy to learn how to use and operate the AS/400. That's not just my opinion developed over the course of 25 years of using the AS/400 and its predecessors going back to the S/34--the students in my Introduction to AS/400 class would agree with me.
SQL and the other data utilities provided by IBM are also easy to pick up--seniors without any AS/400 background learned to use these in a single term.
What they find challenging is using the development tools: the SEU editor, IBM's data language DDS and most specially the RPG programming language.
Maybe these utilities are better on the iSeries--the box I use is pretty old (OS/400 version V3R7).
XP Lite and similar software for other versions of Windows is available from http://www.litepc.com/
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HILF = Highly Intelligent Life Form