[Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486

[Colin Mattoon]

On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 22:31:25 +0100
Martin Stricker <shugal at gmx.de> wrote:<And I clipped>

> 
> This is exactly the reason I dislike Slackware... ;-)))
> 
Heh, heh...but what is perceived as a deficiency in Slackware, may be its great strength as a base Linux distribution to build a Red Hat compatible system that can be installed on an 80386DX with 16 MB RAM. If it isn't already there, it doesn't have to be removed.

Emacs? Eeeeeew! :-)

As an aside, if anyone at this list hasn't looked at Dillo, they should.  It's still pretty much "pre-beta" but it demonstrates that a graphical browser doesn't have to be bloated. Since Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, Galeon, Konqueror, etc., have become so huge, they're part of the problem when considering how to put slow, low memory machines into service with Linux. If a machine can run an Xserver, it can run Dillo, and it will load quickly as an application -- and load web pages quickly after it is opened. Takes very little hard drive space as well. It's about 2% of the size of most contemporary browsers.

Later,
Colin Mattoon 


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