Re: RH 7.2 when?

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Tue, 9 Oct 2001 20:57:23 -0400 (EDT) Justin Zygmont
<jzygmont solarflow dyndns org> imparted to us:
> how about mothers day? :)  what was that, RH 1.0?

Might have been, and I think I saw it available, too. But I never used
it and can't speak to it's usability. That's why I stopped where I did
in the list.

 On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, ABrady wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 12:37:13 -0500 "Kevin Krieser"
> > <kkrieser_list footballmail com> imparted to us:
> >
> > All of the following are still available and some or all will work:
> >
> > 7.0
> > 6.2
> > 6.1
> > 6.0
> > 5.2
> > 5.1
> > 5.0
> > 4.2
> >
> > I don't vouch for anything before that because I haven't used them.
> > Presumably they work fine, and they _are_ available. There's also a
> > distro for i286 out someplace, but I forget the name. There's stuff
> that
> > runs mostly from CD with only a little bit of disk space needed and
> low
> > RAM usage.
> >
> > If the customer wants to make the tradeoff with older hardware, the
> > price they're going to have to pay is older, lower-end
> distributions. If
> > they want more up-to-date, they need to see that it isn't resonable
> to
> > expect that progress in the entirety of linux should be held back by
> > wanting to keep antiques around. Spend a small bit and get better
> > performance (I just got a 1.3GB drive, P-166, 32MB RAM desktop from
> Ebay
> > for $35 + shipping - total less than $70).
> >
> > Now, why won't Redhat or somebody else release a version that works
> with
> > my Commode-door-64 and Vic-20, or my Atari-800?
> >
> > > A problem is if a customer wants Redhat, being a major name
> > > distribution,
> > > but you have to support older custom boxes running 486 CPUS, 32MB,
> and
> > > as
> > > little as 512MB hard drives.  To even get 7.1 installed on these,
> you
> > > have
> > > to deselect nearly everything, and choose a small initial
> swapfile.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: redhat-list-admin redhat com
> > > [mailto:redhat-list-admin redhat com]On Behalf Of Thomas Ribbrock
> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 9:03 AM
> > > To: redhat-list redhat com
> > > Subject: Re: RH 7.2 when?
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 01:37:26AM -0400, Justin Zygmont wrote:
> > > > >
> > >
> http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,2816836,00.html
> > > >
> > > > 64 MB RAM minimum, oh geez!
> > > >
> > > > and 2 GB of disk space????
> > >
> > > Well, it was already said a while ago that Red Hat Linux can no
> longer
> > > be
> > > recommended for low end machines (neither can any of the other
> "big
> > > players", I would assume). Fortunately, there are alternatives out
> > > there for
> > > those machines.
> > >
> > > Cheerio,
> > >
> > > Thomas
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