Re: Is my old RedHat computer doomed?



Kevin Buzzard <buzzard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.

My computers are Pentium 120s with as little as 96MB RAM. I used to use
Redhat 5 and later Redhat 6. The computers are now running Debian, so a
change of distribution might be a way forward for you, if you want to update
your software.

Regards,

Mark.

--
Mark Hobley,
393 Quinton Road West,
Quinton, BIRMINGHAM.
B32 1QE.
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