[nflug] RE: Copy of Red Hat 7.2

Frank Kumro fkumro at gmail.com
Tue Dec 6 16:40:53 EST 2005


I fully agree mark...i just migrated my final machine at work to slackware :)
On 12/6/05, Mark Musone <mmusone at shatterit.com> wrote:
> lol..and even the floppy drive is optional :)
>
>
> In all reality, I still use slackware as my primary distro of choice..not to
> start a flame war, but for servers, it kicks butt!!
>
>
> -Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
> Frank Kumro
> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 3:57 PM
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: Re: [nflug] RE: Copy of Red Hat 7.2
>
> Slackware :) Cant forget that one
>     *  486 processor
>     * 16MB RAM (32MB suggested)
>     * 100-500 megabytes of hard disk space for a minimal and around
> 3.5GB for full install
>     * 3.5" floppy drive
>
> and i do have it running on a 486 at my house so thats no BS
>
> On 12/6/05, David W. Aquilina <david at starkindler.us> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 03:32:42PM -0500, Jesse Jarzynka wrote:
> > > David W. Aquilina wrote:
> > > >
> > > >Fedora has similarly low requirements. 200Mhz Pentium-class CPU, 64M of
> > > >memory and less than a gig of disk will get you by just fine.
> > > Actually the FC4 release notes state: "Minimum for graphical: 192MB" (of
> > > RAM), you might be thinking of text-mode, but the Ubuntu requirements I
> > > listed included graphics.
> >
> > I call BS on Ubuntu's part, they both use Gnome by default. For any
> old/small system I'd recommend xfce4 over gnome anyways.
> >
> > We also don't know what he wants/needs to use the system for, so it's a
> moot point anyways until he tells us.
> >
> > --
> > David W. Aquilina
> > david at starkindler.us
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> --
> Frank
> Shenanigans!!
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Frank
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