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

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.08.01 02:16 PM, Geoffrey typed: ============

>>    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.

   late 1997 or 1998. I tried again with Linux after that and tried to 
put RedHat on the same machine with no success. RH was too much for that 
machine to handle. Since I needed to get a new computer anyway, I totally 
gave up on Linux and the x86 platform in mid-1999 and moved completely to 
a Mac.



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