Subj : Which Distro
To   : ROB MCCART
From : John Guillory
Date : Fri May 13 2005 11:16 am

  Re: Which Distro
  By: ROB MCCART to TERINJOKES on Thu May 05 2005 07:04 pm

Hey gang,
  I'm going to be getting an internal cd-rom for my laptop tha thas only 8mb of
ram around Tuesday....  I have been thinking of putting a version of linux
on it to play around with... (Though may sorta hold off due to the fact that
I may need Windows'95 for the infra red wireless printer that I ordered for
$19.99 as well...)  Not to mention, the thought of using windows and the
printer to generate invoices at customers houses when I do computer related
work is a thought.... I could allways write a program that does it via serial
port, and perhaps find drivers to treat the wireless as a serial port, which is
basically what Windows'95 does....  If I went with Linux, I'd end up having to
write my own invoicing program, which would work for simple 1-2 item invoices
at first, but would be a pain for future invoices....  Any way, if I did go
with Linux to play around with.... What version of Linux would you recommend
(Either Slackware, Redhat, Mandrake) that would run smoothly in console mode on
a Pentium 100mHz w/ 8mb RAM and allow me to install all programming
environments and perhaps Virtual Pascal for Linux....  I've ran Linux on a
80386 DX-40 with 4 or 8 mb RAM before and it flew in console mode, so don't try
to tell me I can't find a version that'll run decent....  The next question is
do you have a link to that version in case its not available via
www.linuxiso.org ...


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