non-mainstream Linux distros (was:Re: [rescue] sunpci note: TWO car ds now available)

[William S.]

Any idea how well it would work on a 486? If it is
minimal perhaps it would be a good choice.

Bill
Amsterdam, NL

On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 11:52:31AM +0100, jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:
> On 26 Jan, nate wrote:
> 
> > -- Snip complaints about RedHat --
> > I would highly recommend trying Gentoo Linux (http://www.gentoo.org).
> > It's not exactly in 1.0 yet, 
> RockLinux is at 1.4 and really usable. http://www.rocklinux.org
> I don't like Linux (I am a BSD daemon), but I have to use it at work. I
> have RockLinux on my workstation and on one server. It really rocks,
> compared to other distros, especially compared to Suzi, Mandreck or
> RedRat. It is simple, plain and pure. E.g. the installation programm is
> /bin/bash. The package management is similar to the *BSD system. 
> -- 
> 
> 
> 
> tschuess,
>           Jochen
> 
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