redhat-list Digest, Vol 11, Issue 3

mark whitroth at cfl.rr.com
Tue Jan 4 00:08:58 UTC 2005


> Subject: Re: RFC - Fedora on old hardware
> From: "Benjamin J. Weiss" <benjamin at birdvet.org>
> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 07:51:39 -0600

> mark wrote:
<snip>
>> So, I'd like some comments: should I go to Fedora 2 or 3? Is it the 
>> case that with 2, it started using kernel 2.6? If so, do I have to 
>> worry about speed, or memory size?
  >
> I used to use LRP (linux router project), a router and firewall on a 
> floppy, on a 486 with 16 megs of ram and four NIC's.  The project is now 

<G>
<snip>
> If you have a bootable CDROM on that thing, you could burn the image 
> onto a CD...

Thing is a) I'd like to see if I want to stay with Redhat/Fedora, and b) 
I want to upgrade to handle bug fixes and security patches in one swell 
foop.

	mark
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