[Am-info] Testing the Best of Linux : 4:22 PM EST Fri., July 26, 2002

[Geoffrey]

Paul Rickard wrote:
> ========== On 2002.08.01 01:22 AM, Fred A. Miller typed: ============
> 
> 
>>We 
>>relegate Slackware to the bottom of the heap, because it requires incredible 
>>patience."
>>
> 
>    This may explain why my first expereience with Linux was a bad one... 
> My premier attempt was with a cheapbytes.com CD of Slackware, being 
> installed on an AMD 486/80 with 16MB RAM. Oh well..

When was this?  Slackware is not the place to start with Linux.  The 
hardware requirements for Slackware will permit installation on much 
older hardware though.  You'd never get through RedHat, Mandrake or SuSE 
on a 486 these days.  The minimum target is somewhere around a pentium 
with 32 mb of memory.


Slackware installs are still for the seasoned Linux user.  But, I like 
Slack for it's small footprint when needed, like a firewall.


-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric@3times25.net

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