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[alex at lava-net.com]

I gave fedora a  try once on an old MMX/233 with 256mb of ram.  took 5 
minutes to boot minutes to boot and that was without the gui enabled 
(which I might add it doesn't give you the option of not booting gui 
during the installer, or at least it didn't for me).  After that 
slackware got reinstalled and everything was happy again.
On Mon, Sep 19, 
2005 at 12:25:31AM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> > My turn-off to Linux was an early - and continuing - negative
> > impression of the *attitude* of most Linux zealots, who suffer from
> > "anything more than 10 minutes old is crap" disease,
> 
> Not just the extreme zealots.  I recently had occasion to install
> Fedora, and the installer said my machine didn't have enough RAM to
> install on.
> 
> It had 32 megs.
> 
> And this wasn't just some zealot's idea.  This actually made it into
> the distributed installer!
> 
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