rh 7.3 instalation

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 01:20:20PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   Actually, Debian Stable runs quite well on an old 433 mhz machine with
> 128 megs of RAM <g>.  It even runs GNOME and KDE *APPLICATIONS* too.
> But don't even *THINK* of running GNOME or KDE *DESKTOP*.  I use FVWM,
> and there are other lightweight window managers.

Debian stable runs well on a 486/66 48M as long as you don't think X is
needed for the most part.

>   It's sad to see the end of 7.3.  It was, in my mind, one of the best
> general-purpose linux distros of all time.  Unfortunately, Redhat fell
> prey to the Redmond version-du-jour disease.  I used to laugh at people
> who bought...
> Windows 3.11    in 1994
> Windows 95      in 1995
> Windows 95 OSr2 in 1996
> Windows 98      in 1998
> Windows 98 SE   in 1999
> Windows ME      in 2000
> Windows XP home in 2001

You could not buy W95OSR2 even if you wanted to, and most people didn't
buy 98SE unless they didn't already have 98.

Now it's 2004, what is going on with the Windows releases?  Server 2003
doesn't really count to me.

>   Redhat was doing the same thing with 8.0 and 9.0.  With the end of 7.3
> support looming, I switched to Debian in the fall.

I switched after RH6.0 drove me nuts, and I had used every version of
redhat since 2.0 up to that point.  After seeing RH7.0 I sure was happy
I had switched.  Now I have been using Debian since 2.0, although 2.1
was the first version I found useful.

Lennart Sorensen
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