Forum Home
Press F1
Thread ID: 24045	2002-09-02 06:47:00	even more linux	tweak'e (174)	Press F1

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
75721	2002-09-03 03:50:00	Most mirror sites have older versions. One place to find Linux CDs is in your public library. Linux books, unlike books about other OSs, often have a CD attached, containing a full installation for the OS. It would probably be best to not go too far back. RH4.2 would probably be too far. (The older versions are perfectly stable ... it's just that there have been various improvements which are actually improvements , especially security for Internet-attached systems.) Also, the default object code format changed: from "aout". This means that (binary)packaged applications won't run on the older OS versions. You can compile from sources to run them... but often you need library upgrades too, and it will get messy. (You can often run older applications on modern OSs, but it needs a kernel compiled to accept aout binariues).	Graham L (2)
75722	2002-09-03 03:58:00	win95 is looking attractive again :x :_| what do the linux gurus use to replace the aging win95 with?	tweak'e (174)
75723	2002-09-03 04:20:00	RH 6 . 2 or 5 . 2 would probably be OK . I run 6 . 2 on a 486-DX2-66 with 16M . It's my main server . (Its console KB and monitor are on a switch for the rare occasions I actually use them, and I don't use a gui on it) . Even with a GUI I bet it would be faster than W95 with 16MB . The amount of memory you need is dependent on the applications you use . The kernel (which is the resident part) fits on a floppy . You don't need 96MB just for the OS . When I bumped my P133 (on which I sometimes use Gnome) from 32 MB to 96, I was using a SCSI disk as the swap . I removed the disk . I didn't tell Linux . It made no difference . (I later made a swap file, but it is hardly ever used) .	Graham L (2)
1 2