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		burgerbrain on Feb 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Richard Stallman's Computer Setup No, ubuntu specifically on that machine. The only tricky part as I can see it should be the webbrowser. You'd either have to use an old one, or a featureless one.

hollerith on Feb 5, 2012 [–]

I was using an old one (Firefox 1.5) and it was extremely painful with Amazon.com. Amazon.com seems to have changed in the 3 years since I used it last with that browser.

I always thought that a "featureless" one (one without modern JS or CSS) would be extremely painful or useless, too.

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