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UncleSlacky · 2026-07-27T12:46:54 1785156414

The well-known country of Europe with its single set of laws? That Europe?

Self-defence can be a valid justification for manslaughter, at least in the UK.

UncleSlacky · 2026-07-24T16:39:06 1784911146

And of course, in the UK, every school had at least one BBC Micro (about the only good thing Thatcher ever did).

UncleSlacky · 2026-07-23T10:26:04 1784802364

The UK also had the Sinclair QL (68008-based) in 1984 for £399, famously owned by Linus Torvalds:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_QL#Linux

UncleSlacky · 2026-07-22T13:23:20 1784726600

Lots of Radio 4 programmes are available as podcasts, and it is possible to stream BBC radio outside the UK without a VPN - see the links here:

http://www.radiofeeds.co.uk/

UncleSlacky · 2026-07-22T10:54:04 1784717644

I quite like the "new" WKRP (in Cincinnati of course), it doesn't seem to be a corporate cookie-cutter kind of station, and it plays the kind of thing the TV version would probably play today (and they even use the same jingles):

https://www.iheart.com/live/wkrp-10724/

UncleSlacky · 2026-07-18T13:38:08 1784381888

You should run something like Void, Alpine or antiX on these. HaikuOS also runs really well on them if you don't need actual Linux.

UncleSlacky · 2026-07-07T10:33:05 1783420385

Also, honourable mention for the Sinclair QL (though it was a 68008 machine).

UncleSlacky · 2026-06-27T13:22:50 1782566570

https://github.com/lproven/usb-dos

"To get your work off the key, just insert the key into a computer that's already running any more modern OS than DOS."

jszymborski · 2026-06-27T14:53:11 1782571991

This looks like a winner, thx!

lproven · 2026-06-27T18:27:42 1782584862

I put that together. Any problems, do please let me know.

lproven · 2026-06-27T18:27:17 1782584837

Thanks for the plug! :-)

UncleSlacky · 2026-06-27T13:17:57 1782566277

Haiku OS is a better choice. Runs great on my eeepc 701 4G with 512Mb RAM.

UncleSlacky · 2026-06-27T13:15:57 1782566157

Yes, I was surprised that MX didn't get a mention. It's great on anything with 2GB or more.

2b3a51 · 2026-06-27T13:25:39 1782566739

Another possibility is Slackware 15.0 which is the stable release that gets updates. Available in 32 and 64 bit, runs a 5.15 series kernel (antiX 26 32bit uses a 5.10.x kernel). I have an install on an ancient Thinkpad T42 with 1Gb ram, a single centrino chipset CPU, 40Gb hard drive and radeon graphics. Chugs along nicely with Abiword, Gnumeric and Dillo. Firefox will load but is deeply unhappy.

(I install everything except the KDE and XAP package sets, and then install selected packages from XAP as I need them e.g. GIMP, xpdf and so on)

MX has more recent packages for some things though, Slackware 15 is getting mature.