Tracy R Reed wrote: > John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > RH9 is no longer supported, Fedora Legacy has dropped it as well as most > > of the rest of the Fedora line. This is why I cannot recommend RH9 for > > any use. > > "No longer supported" just means you will have to keep an eye out for > security problems and perhaps recompile stuff yourself from source.
Is the casual home user going to do this? Is the casual home user going to run backups? The answer to both is NO. > Not having commercial support doesn't really matter because it's not > like he was going to buy any anyway. Who said commercial? I said support. Any support. > If you want to use old hardware you have to make some tradeoffs. The only tradeoff is speed. You can have the lastest (Debian) and the greatest (Debian) on your old hardware. It works. It works great. it does not work terribly fast, but that is a limitation of the hardware in question. With a lightweight window manager (Window Maker comes to mind) it will still work acceptably fast. Unless you use Open Office. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
