Re: RedHat Linux 7.2 needed.
- From: Allan Adler <ara@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 14 Jul 2007 08:13:30 -0400
ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Moe Trin) writes:
Geez Allan - that's a little slow on the response time, isn't it? That
was almost 7200 articles back from "now".
I'm going through them slowly...
The Stanford Music Department, if I remember right, has several
versions of RH and Fedora for free download, including RH 7.3.
Why stop there? ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/distributions/
has distributions going back to the early 1990s - including early
versions of SLS, Slackware, Debian, Yggdrasil, and others.
That's good to know.
As long as hardware isn't free, it is perfectly acceptable to use old
versions of RH on old computers. Software that can't be used without
spending a lot of money on a new computer is not really free in my
opinion.
I have no idea where you are located, but here in the USA, dumpster
diving or garage sales will usually turn up recent hardware that is
more than adequate to run a modern distribution for next to no cost.
I recently bought a 500 MHz Celeron with 256 Megs of RAM, 6.4 Gig
drive, and a crappy but usable 15 inch CRT monitor for US$30. If you
look at the RELEASE-NOTES file for Fedora Core 7, you'll find this
is better than the "Recommended" hardware for that distribution.
That's good to know too. I rarely see discarded computer systems or garage
sales. I found a discarded printer and lugged it home and am still unable to
get it to work. Sometimes friends give me their old PCs instead of throwing
them out.
Someone just gave me a laptop that runs Ubuntu and has about 50 GB of free
disk space. Unfortunately, it has a few problems, including a fan that does
not work, causing it to shut down when it overheats. I asked a computer
repair place how to open it to remove the fan and was told what to do.
I opened it up, removed the fan, found some loose padding inside the fan
casing, removed it, put the fan back, closed up the laptop and tried to
start it. The battery light went on and so did the light indicating the
line from the power supply, but it won't actually start. There are a few
other things wrong with it, since someone once tripped over the phone
line before I got it and damaged the connector for it. There might still be
some parts rattling around inside. I haven't given up on it yet ...
I once purchased RH 9 and learned when I got home that the system requirements
on the box were not accurate. I don't remember exactly what the problem was,
but I think it gave the impression that one could install from a floppy
drive, which was the only means available. So, now I don't believe what
the distribution says about its system requirements until I have succeeded
in installing it.
It's probably a bit early to be looking for the systems people will
be throwing away because they lack the horsepower to run Vista, but
I am seeing systems that won't run XP with all of the bells, whistles,
and mal-ware that normally gets installed. These are more than enough
for running a non-windoze version of Linux, or one of the *BSDs.
I'll keep my eyes open. Thanks for the suggestions.
--
Ignorantly,
Allan Adler <ara@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
* Disclaimer: I am a guest and *not* a member of the MIT CSAIL. My actions and
* comments do not reflect in any way on MIT. Also, I am nowhere near Boston.
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