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

mark m.roth2006 at rcn.com
Mon Nov 26 13:45:54 UTC 2007


Virden, Larry W. 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

*snort*

"Low resource"? Lessee, I used to run RH7 on *way* less than that in terms of 
RAM, and less than that for a h/d, and I'm running RH9 for my firewall/router 
on half that memory (no X, though).

> 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

What do you want/need on the system? Are you compiling, and/or running a d/b, 
and/or running apache, or do you have some proprietary bloatware that eats 
resources?

Remember, you can still d/l a linux that runs on a 486, and maybe even a 386.

	mark




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