Re: Just Some General Newbie Questions

2003-06-13 Thread Scarletdown
On 9 Jun 2003 at 18:34, Gordon Messmer wrote: Scarletdown wrote: On 9 Jun 2003 at 0:05, Gordon Messmer wrote: have the most experience with). I may convert my MINIX box into a dual-boot MINIX/Slackware system soon though, You have a MINIX box? 8) Well, up until just a few hours ago,

Re: Just Some General Newbie Questions

2003-06-13 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 02:08:11AM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: On 9 Jun 2003 at 18:34, Gordon Messmer wrote: snippage So now, I have a SuSE 6.1 install in progress on that system. Picked up the SuSE package at Goodwill a couple days ago for a fiver, and figured that this would be a good time

Re: Just Some General Newbie Questions

2003-06-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
Scarletdown wrote: Hi! I've got this ol' Pentium-133 system I just set up with Red Hat 5.2... How much memory has it got? Best thing you can do for this system, if you're going to try to run *anything* recent, is to max out the RAM and be patient with it ;) 1: Since the Netscape version

Re: Just Some General Newbie Questions

2003-06-09 Thread Scarletdown
On 9 Jun 2003 at 0:05, Gordon Messmer wrote: How much memory has it got? Best thing you can do for this system, if you're going to try to run *anything* recent, is to max out the RAM and be patient with it ;) At the moment, only 32MB (in the form of 4 8MB Simms). Since this system is

Re: Just Some General Newbie Questions

2003-06-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
Scarletdown wrote: On 9 Jun 2003 at 0:05, Gordon Messmer wrote: At the moment, only 32MB (in the form of 4 8MB Simms). Since this system is primarily just an experimentation and Linux learning station; it is on the low end of the totem pole for upgrades via hand-me-downs, so it will be a while

Just Some General Newbie Questions

2003-06-08 Thread Scarletdown
Hi! I've got this ol' Pentium-133 system I just set up with Red Hat 5.2 (only version I have available at the moment), and after experimenting all day, have a few questions. 1: Since the Netscape version that came with my Red Hat distro is rather sucky, what are some other browsers I can