what is the fastest fedora/redhat distribution on a PII 300 Mhz , 196MB RAM laptop?

David Limon Romero dlr at mega.net.mx
Thu Sep 8 23:25:23 UTC 2005


El Jue 08 Sep 2005 6:11 PM, Gilboa Davara escribió:

> Considering the size of memory, I'd say RH9.
> FC1 was too buggy (in my eyes)
> FC2 and 3 were too heavy to be used with 196MB. (I have a similar laptop
> with 256MB)
> However, be advised that using such an old distro is a major security
> risk.
>
Not risky at all, you can download updates from fedoralegacy.org

> Another interesting option is CentOS 2.1 / RHEL 2.1.
> Both are still supported and should perform fairly close to RH9.
>
> Gilboa
>
> On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 13:16 -0700, malahal at us.ibm.com wrote:
> > I don't need any new features. Anything from RedHat7.3 and up should be
> > fine for me.

David
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