Forking the discussion - attempting to update a laptop running redhat... RE: Any Certified Laptops In The Future?

[Herta Van den Eynde]

On 26/11/2007, Virden, Larry W. <lvirden at cas.org> wrote:
>  In the past week or so I 'inherited' a hand me down Dell laptop that is
> running red hat 7. This is my first redhat as well as first linux
> system, though I've used other types of unix for years.
>
> When one is running a low resource hardware item like a laptop (mine has
> 256 meg of memory and about 8 gig of disk), what's a good migration
> path? I mean, I presume that attempting to use whatever update mechanism
> exists is going to attempt to download a LOT of files - probably more
> than will fit on my disk, and for that matter, which might not run even
> if downloaded and installed, due to higher memory requirements, etc.
>
> Anyone else had to deal with this sort of issue?

Hate to do this, but try a forklift migration.
Red Hat 7 is almost archeologically ancient, and while 256 MB might be
enough to *install* another linux if you are a patient person, it will
soon drain that patience when you want to use anything on top of it.

Kind regards,

Herta