Re: Is my old RedHat computer doomed?

[Glyn Millington <wistanswick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin Buzzard <buzzard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Cluttering up my bedroom is an 8-year-old laptop with 192 megs of RAM
> (yeah, it was pretty state of the art at the time) and a 6 gig
> hard drive. It has Redhat 8.0 installed on it and it's a fine machine:
> it is super-super stable and although it can't quite handle Firefox 2
> it's the machine I use every morning to e.g. read the news before I get up,
> and I regularly ssh to other machines from it to read mail etc.
>
> I have been loathe to change the OS---why fix it if it ain't broke?
> Upgrading from RH7 to RH8 in 2002 already cost me a lot in terms of
> responsiveness. 

Put Slackware on it and when you get a choice of window managers go for
Fluxbox or the mighty fvwm - it should run just fine.


atb






Glyn