Re: XLEL: Best Dist?

[Nate Reindl <fiction@sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 08:11:02PM -0600, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> Geez, give me a little credit.  I know for a fact that Red Hat 8 won't
> run on anything quite that low-end.  7.x *might*, but it's not all
> that likely.

Sure, since you asked for it.  And, no, 7.x isn't all that friendly 
either.

> I'd tend to agree.  It'll be painful using apt, but other than that
> the box should run just fine.  Plus the esoteric software suitable for
> slower, lower-memory systems will be available.  (The PA-RISC people
> keep talking about a browser called Dillo that is usable even on the
> *really* old PA-RISC boxes, which are probably a fair bit faster than
> a 486, but it might be useful information anyway.  :-)

Hum.  I've never used Dillo.

I've used Chimera, though, which is a damned minimal browser and a breeze 
to use on old SPARC and similar machines.

-- 
Nate Reindl, silug.org's very own anarchist
"the US isn't a capitalistic country though.. we're a dictatorship. We're
all under control by corporations." -- smj, on capitalism in the US

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