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Linux on older machines

Subject: Linux on older machines
From: mod at std.com (Michael O'Donnell)
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 21:32:56 -0500
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 04 Jan 1999 20:38:26 EST." <199901050136.UAA21670@chmls06.mediaone.net>


>Red Hat's installation is graphics based.  I would guess that Debian
>would be better to install on a smaller system.

Not quite sure what you mean by "graphics based" but I just
installed RH5.2 on a skanky old 486 box and it worked fine.
I had 16Mb RAM, though - that could have made the difference...

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  - From: gaf at mediaone.net (Jerry Feldman)

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