Re: giving up, please help me choose a linux distro

From: Jarosław Siebert (jsiebert_at_poczta.wp.pl)
Date: 11/16/05

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    Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:11:20 +0000 (UTC)

    On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:47:10AM +0000, Mark Weinem wrote:
    > toby <toby@telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
    >
    > > Another vote for Gentoo here (ex-Debian user and BSD fan myself).
    > > Certainly makes any flavour of RedHat technically obsolete.
    >
    > Go for ArchLinux or Frugalware:
    >
    > http://www.archlinux.org/about.php
    i686 ... no i486 support...

    > http://frugalware.org/about.php
    i686 ... no i486 support...

    try to install it on via epia c3 processor (800MHz)

    > ...makes any flavour of Slackware or Gentoo obsolete ;-)
    sometimes Slackware is the only choice. (or gentoo)

    best regards
            iu1j4 

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