[Gllug] Wide eyed and innosent new members 21/10/02
Walid Shaari
walid at melinux.com
Wed Oct 23 07:06:29 UTC 2002
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 01:59, Chris Ball wrote:
> >> On 2002-10-13 00:11:34 +0100, Pete Ryland <pdr at pdr.cx> said:
>
> >> we have a 486 computer is that OK.
>
> > a 486 is fine. some more recent flashy graphical programs may
> > not work so well though, but none of those is necessary.
>
> I have it in my head that both Red Hat and Mandrake have stopped support
> for sub-i586. If this is confirmed (anyone?), whoever runs the install
> might want to make sure they have a Debian CD set to hand, etc.
mandrake was redhat rpms for the i586+KDE, thats is how it started! I am
not sure about redhat though as when I browse the ftp site there are
i386, i686 dirs so I guess its still the same old hat
Walid
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