[Cialug] what distros were out in 1996?

[cialug@cialug.org]

He could do a modern distro with horribly outdates applications:  Debian
stable.

Hahahaha, ok that was a joke and should be taken good-heartededly(sic).

I would agree with Josh, a modern distro is best.  Your choice of applications
will affect your usage more than picking out an older kernel and set of base
utilities.
I'd say slackware!

Quoting Josh More <morej@alliancetechnologies.net>:

> My experience has been that it is best to use modern distros
> even with older hardware.  Specifically, I like Fedora and
> SUSE pro, as they have the 2.6 kernel with lots of drivers.
> 
> In the one machine I've had that didn't work (32M ram, 1G hard
> drive, laptop), I installed NetBSD and everything worked.
> In that case, the situation was that most distros wouldn't boot
> on it, and the ones that did, didn't support the PCMCIA bus.
> While I could have built the driver to make that work, I didn't
> have the space to install the development system.  Yeah, there
> were workarounds, but I just thought that there were too many
> chickens and eggs.  NetBSD worked great.
> 
> -- 
> -Josh More, RHCE, CISSP
>  morej@alliancetechnologies.net
>  515-245-7701
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