I use RedHat; I have it installed on about five PC's. It's easy, it works, but my uptimes aren't as good as some because of my cheap hardware and habit of turning off computers when not in use. I use Mandrake on the kids' computer--the menu's were better organized on Mandrake, and it came with more games, as I recall.
My 'minimalist' home router-machine has a 66mhz-Cyrix with 16mb of ram. It is a mostly original "Leading Edge" computer that someone gave me because it was not capable of upgrading from windows 3.1 to windows 95 years ago. Last summer I loaded a mostly original RedHat 7.3--I know, I really should replace it or at least compile a low memory kernel but hey, it works. I think it's amazing that a 2.4 kernel will work at all with such an old machine, but it does alright as a dial-up router, firewall, print-server, etc. It probably doesn't even have the horsepower to decode an mp3! This box has seen a few drive upgrades, but has been mostly turned-on, running and operational 24/7 since 1996, probably used little for the years before 1996. _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
