Minimum requirements for install? (Sorry if this is a dup)

Maynard Kuona knxmay001 at mail.uct.ac.za
Sat Mar 20 22:16:00 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 17:51, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> At 03:17 3/20/2004, you wrote:
> >On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 04:32, Homer wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 15:59, Steve Bergman wrote:
> > >       Windows5.x????
> > >
> >Windows 2000 is Windows 5.0
> >Windows XP is Windows 5.1
> >
> >2000 and XP are just branding thingies. Like Linux 2.6 and Redhat 9??
> 
> Not the same thing. The Linux kernel is the central component of all Linux 
> operating systems and distributions, and the latest stable version is 
> currently 2.6. Red Hat Linux 9, Fedora Core 1, and others are different 
> distributions which package the Linux kernel and *thousands* of other 
> packages in order to create a fully-functional operating system. RHL-9 used 
> the 2.4-series kernel,  but you can put a 2.6 kernel into RHL-9 and it 
> makes no real difference.
> 
> 
OK. I was trying to illustrate something anyway.





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