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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