[plug] Re: Members' ages-meetings- dist wars

[Paul Wilson]

> vendor or distribution on CD or floppy disk.  Is it still possible to
build
> a stable system from scratch and how?  Are there any books or postings
that
> any one knows of that cover this?
> 
> The later Kernels and distributions seem to be requiring more and more
> memory and faster machines to run successfully. At least with X.

One of my Linux machines (Linuxen ??) is an elderly 486DX100 with 24 Mb of
RAM - it runs MySQL and does a very good job supporting my database
development work. BTW, it rund RH 5.1 complete with X.

Paul