RH 6.2 vs. 7.1 for older/slower pentium?

[Lan Barnes]

"Richard W. Ernst" wrote:
> 
> Is it true that RH6.2 would be a better setup for a P133, 32meg ram
> than the current v7.1 would be?  If so, why?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rich

My experience with low end HW (this is empirical, no benchmarks) is that
later distributions run as well or better with these caveats:

1. later ones tend to need more HD space for all their extra bells and
whistles

2. if you installed with a /boot partition (remember needing those? ;-)
that was tight, later kernels can be too big for them

Otherwise (unlike M$), later is generally better. This is Linux, my man ;-)

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