[mail] Suggestions on best distro to install on this box.

Chris Wagner ismgr at atchisonkansas.net
Tue Aug 26 16:35:02 CDT 2003


Brian Densmore wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Rob Becker
>>Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 9:43 AM
>>To: Chris Wagner
>>Cc: KCLUG
>>Subject: Re: [mail] Suggestions on best distro to install on this box.
>>
>>
>>I have Mandrake 9.1 running on a PII-200 laptop with 128 M of RAM or
>>so.  While it is by no means a speed demon, it gets the job done.
>>
>>
>
>He he he.
>I'm running Mandrake 9.0 on a PII-233 with 96 MB of RAM.
>Definitely not a speed demon, but once logged in and
>applications are running it is sufficient to get the job
>done and play an occasional game or two. Great for email
>and web browsing. Light word processing and with the new
>printing I can watch LOTR in the living room and print
>website searches and letters to the family in the office.
>Now all I need to do is finish building that Linux robot
>to make popcorn and bring it in with a soda and I never
>have miss a movie frame. ;)
>
>Brian
>
>
>
Would Red Hat 9 work OK?

I mean, I know that it's not going to scream, but I have always liked RH
and wouldn't mind trying it out again.

If so, would someone mind making me a copy of the set if I get them some
CDs?

Thanks!

Chris





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