Re: Intro and more on Linux installs

[ichi]

On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Edenyard wrote:
> 
> someone giving me a 4-CD set of Slackware V3.5 dated 1998.

Then Steve wrote:
>  
> That's about a 2.0.36 kernel?  At any rate, it's quite
> dated by Linux standards, meaning there have been quite 
> a few security exploits fixed.  Depending on how you 
> use the machine, you might want to consider a newer 
> version.

Edenyard is running Linux on a 486, so Slackware 3.x 
will give him better performance than a newer version. 

Cheers,
Steven