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We just made NTK!  Beaujolais!

http://www.ntk.net/
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> 	   sufficiently advanced technology : the gathering
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>      The Linux Bootable Business Card (LNX-BBC) is 40 megs of purest
>      ISO image - just small enough to fit onto one of those Business
>      Card CD-Rs, just big enough to boot into a reasonally
>      fully-fledged Linux system without touching your hard drive. So
>      far, so average emergency boot disk. What makes the LNX-BBC
>      different is the level of heavyweight distro-engineering that's
>      gone into that forty megs. Its home-grown dev system, GAR, is a
>      full-featured BSD-ports-like system for Linux, good enough to
>      become the GNOME2 beta-testers dev harness of choice. In its
>      native environment, GAR's been used to reconfigure, strip down,
>      relink and rebuild the entire Linux toolkit: Xwindows,
>      ethereal, ogg vorbis, vnc, ssh, openssl, Perl and Python, ddate
>      and cowsay are all there on the CD, in skinnier swimwear than
>      they've ever dared wear, waving at you, beckoning, taunting.
>      Version 2.1 has just shipped, with the latest versions of
>      everything - although you should wait for a couple of days
>      before the feast of downloadable add-on packages arrives.
>      LNX-BBC 2.1 can be snatched from their site, via bittorrent if
>      you're feeling generous. And if you're feeling ultra-generous,
>      join the Free Software Foundation and receive one as your
>      membership bribe.  http://www.lnx-bbc.org/
>    - well done, the BBC! (as people are always reported as saying 
> 						      by the BBC).
>      http://member.fsf.org/benefits.html
> - although apparently the 2.1 CD shipment may be delayed due to SARS
> (true)
>      http://www.nog.net/~tony/warez/cowsay.shtml
> 							    - moo

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