Tom Diehl on 18 Dec 2003 17:20:04 -0500


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[PLUG] Re: Distro suggestion?


On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Art Alexion wrote:

> I just got a new machine from a friend I had helped with some technical 
> stuff in the past, and installed RH 7.3 on it because I had a boxed 
> set.  Before I start using it, I figured that I should install something 
> more current.  I have discs for RH8, Mandrake 9.1, and Free BSD 4.8.  
> This is primarily going to be a workstation in a heterogenus platform 
> environment.  My experience so far has been limited to RH 7.x.  I don't 
> have a connection that would make downloading ISOs reasonable. 
> 
> Suggestions?

If you have a pipe bigger than a dialup (or a lot of time) you could upgrade
to fedora core 1 by doing an ftp upgrade. That way you would only need to 
download the pieces that need to be upgraded. Of course if you are on dialup
that could still take a long time. :-)

......Tom
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