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Tom,
A big problem is going to be the "pentium" part of that as RHEL does not
support pentium out of the box. I think that CentOS does support
pentium. It is another RHEL rebuild. You could use SL along with Icewm
(because of the shortage of memory) and the kernel...i586.rpm from CentOS.
-Connie Sieh
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Tom Rockwell
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> Hi,
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> I have an old pentium 233 MHz laptop with 64MB RAM that I'd like to use
> for mainly for serial console access, ssh, light web surfing, and as an
> X display. Can somebody recommend a distro that is derived from Redhat
> or Fedora (so management will be similair to SL distros) but that
> provides a lighter weight desktop than KDE or Gnome and can run with the
> lower performance and memory capacity that a 7 year old laptop provides?
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> Thanks,
> Tom Rockwell
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