On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 14:09:14 +1300 Tom Eastman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 10:37:57PM -0500, Hoyt wrote: > > Sure. i have it, but it's -- 7.0 -- > > But to be honest, most of the really impressive advances that have > happened since 7.0 have been in KDE/GNOME/other graphical interfaces and > stuff like that. Most of the stuff that a 486 doesn't have the power to > use effectively anyway. > > IMHO (emphasis on the H) 7.0 would probably work well, and then couldn't > you upgrade from there using SRPMS? > > Have there been many kernel advances since 7.0 that would make it > worthwhile on a 486 (by that I mean, not just driver advances for new > equipment that a 486 won't have anyway)? > > Tom > Tom, one big advance since the 7.0 days that comes to mind would be iptables. I personally wouldn't know what to do without them anymore.-- daRcmaTTeR --------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Linux User 182496 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 9:05pm up 7 days, 13:41, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.04, 0.00
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