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Redhat-ish distro for pentium laptop?
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Tom Rockwell <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:02:02 -0500
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Hi,

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?

Thanks,
Tom Rockwell

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