From: Tzafrir Cohen (tzafrir_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Sat 26 Jun 2004 - 14:11:54 IDT
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 01:45:56PM +0300, Omer Zak wrote:
> I use RedHat 8.0 (on a PC with 256MB memory), and it is already old if
> to judge from the quantity of new software, whose RPMs I cannot rebuild
> or install due to all kinds of silly dependencies.
>
> I would be interested, too, in Web sites which provide new software for
> RedHat 8.0 based installations.
http://freshrpms.net is a good start . I'm not sure if
http://fedoralegacy.org/ provides timely enough updates.
>
> About memory needs of new distributions:
> I have FC1 on a laptop with 128MB memory, and it is slow to start
> applications. People advise to add additional 128MB memory.
> About your Pentium 200 speed, it may be too slow nowadays (both my PC
> and laptop use 1.7GHz processors).
That's because you use memory-hungry programs. You don't have to.
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