Subj : nethack  was:"To RAID or not to RAID?"
To   : Kenneth Parrish
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Thu Sep 02 2004 05:18 pm

Hello Kenneth.

31 Aug 04 19:42, you wrote to me:

 KP> -=> Jasen Betts wrote to Kenneth Parrish <=-

 JB>> Nethack has developed too since the split.

 JB>> I guess I could install slashem and see how they differ...
 KP> the linux dictionary entry says
 KP> - New roles - New skill system - Riding pets - New special levels

yeah nethack has riding pets, if you're a knight you get a pony.

 JB>> At 6.4 megs installed it looks to be about 3 times the size of
 JB>> the debian packaged nethack.
 KP> woah  :)

and nethack has a bundled GUI interface which slashem doesn't.

 KP> ... # echo 64 > /proc/sys/kernel/base_timeslice  -- 2.6.8.1-rc1-mm1

hmm. I downloaded the woody-ified 2.6 kernel sources lastnight
(30 megs) I remeber when that was enough disk space to fit linux and enough 
tools to compile the kernel

hmm, if I can find that fm801 sound driver I can probably get falconseye to run 
too.

Jasen

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