Re: Is my old RedHat computer doomed?



Kevin Buzzard <buzzard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Cluttering up my bedroom is an 8-year-old laptop with 192 megs of RAM
(yeah, it was pretty state of the art at the time) and a 6 gig
hard drive. It has Redhat 8.0 installed on it and it's a fine machine:
it is super-super stable and although it can't quite handle Firefox 2
it's the machine I use every morning to e.g. read the news before I get up,
and I regularly ssh to other machines from it to read mail etc.

I have been loathe to change the OS---why fix it if it ain't broke?
Upgrading from RH7 to RH8 in 2002 already cost me a lot in terms of
responsiveness.

Put Slackware on it and when you get a choice of window managers go for
Fluxbox or the mighty fvwm - it should run just fine.


atb






Glyn
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