On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Luke Scharf wrote:

> Troy Dawson wrote:
> 
> > Hi Tom,
> > As Connie said, if it is a pure pentium, then S.L. won't install on it 
> > because of the kernel, but CentOS will.  But if it is a pentium II, 
> > then I'd definatly say go with S.L. and use ice.
> > Ice was designed to be very lightweight.  It generally takes somewhere 
> > around 56k of memory.  The whole rpm itself is only 1.5 Meg, and that 
> > is including icons.
> > You can get icewm out of the dag repository if you find you have to go 
> > the CentOS route.
> > Troy
> 
> 
> What about Redhat 7.3?

No security errata has been released from RedHat for a really long time.  
Some security errata have been released by Fedora Legacy.

> 
> Also, a CD-distribution such as Knoppix or Helix may work well for the 
> serial-console application.

> 
> -Luke
> 
-Connie Sieh