[plug] kmail and the gigasecond bug

[Steve Vertigan]

Bret Busby wrote:

> As I have said, already, I use a
> Curix 6x86 CPU based system, with 64MB of RAM. On that, I can run Star Office
> 5.2, several Netscape (4.61) browser windows, some kfm browser windows, kmail,
> and, all of this on top of X-Windows, satisfactorily. If I have to upgrade to
> one of these new-fangled, multi-CD versions of Linux, then, the hardware
> upgrades required, would mean that I might as well spend the thousands of
> dollars, and, buy a new computer, which makes upgrades too expensive.

I'm running Mandrake 7.2 quite happily on a P200 with 96 MB ram.  Before
that I was running it useably (though not quite as happily) on 32 MB ram
so I don't see why a later version of Redhat should cause you problems. 
Just because a distro bundles more than one CD worth of packages doesn't
mean you have to install them all and the kernel can be customised to
size with a recompile.

Regards,
Steve
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