Linux on Pentium era systems

[Tom Buskey]

On 8/16/07, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/16/07, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> > ... whey do you need a modern kernel?
>
>   A lot of wireless chipsets only work with the latest kernels.  Or so
> I understand.  Maybe backported drivers are available.


Sure.  I had to upgrade Mandrake to get my wireless card back then.  And
RedHat 7 didn't work either.  That's basically the sticking point here.


  There's also the question of security updates, which can be an issue
> for things like web browsing.  But one could always download the
> stand-alone binary of Firefox from the Mozilla site.


Sure.  It might be that a current version doesn't work with the older
libraries w/o a recompile.  IIRC there was a change somewhere around RH 6 ->
7.
Another GUI browser that doesn't have the security issues might be possible
too.

There's also the issue of flash, java, etc.
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