From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ichi@ihug.co.nz Subject: Re: Debian install issue Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:56:35 +0000 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3DA532B3.29A7FF20@ihug.co.nz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie > On 9 Oct 2002, Ray Olszewski wrote: > > > As to Slackware (and btw, what does "survpc-friendly" mean?) survpc = survivor PC = sub-Pentium PC Slackware is survpc-friendly because even the latest version (8.1) runs on a 386, provides a low-mem kernel for systems with less than 8mb RAM and supports old non-IDE CDroms. And (incredibly) it even supports pre-IDE (two cable) harddrives and MicroChannel systems. I know of no other up-to-date, mainsteam distro that provides that much upfront support for old hardware. Cheers, Steven - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs