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. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
