Quoting WipeOut <wipe_out@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Steve Watford wrote: > > >They are running IE something. They are on SP 6. Although they are slow and > the > > graphics are limited. 800x600 16 color I think. They work. FC1 refuses to > try > >to install, anaconda just exits. RH9 did install, although it won't run X > >without swapping to disk so much that the HD starts throwing timeout errors. > > >Guess I'm just going to have upgrade the ram. Funny that for linux we need > to > >upgrade the hardware that WinNT will run on. Sort of a reversal. I know > there > >are lighter versions of linux out there, but we have settled on RH,Fedora. > > > >Thanks > > > > > > > Your comparison is a little skewed, you are comparing the latest Linux > system with a prehistoric windows version.. > If you want to compare to WinNT you should be trying to install RH5.x. > If you are comparing to FC1 then you need to use Windows 2003.. > > I don't think Windows 2003 would be too happy on 32MB of RAM either.. ;-) > > Later.. I'm sure it wouldn't either. Like I said the NT install is updated to the current service pac as is the version of ie installed. It has just become sort of a challenge at this point. I think it can work, if stripped down of a lot of excess baggage that has come into all distributions, linux or windows. I was just surpised that a minimal install wasn't possible with fedora. Someone earlier mentioned the rule-project. It is quite interesting. Thanks
