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Luke Scharf <[log in to unmask]>
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Luke Scharf <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:59:18 -0500
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Connie Sieh wrote:

>On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Luke Scharf wrote:
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>>Troy Dawson wrote:
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>>>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
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>>What about Redhat 7.3?
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>No security errata has been released from RedHat for a really long time.  
>Some security errata have been released by Fedora Legacy.
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Good point.  The machine would have to stay off of any useful networks.

-Luke

-- 
Luke Scharf, Systems Administrator
Virginia Tech Aerospace and Ocean Engineering

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