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Re: [seul-edu] Re: Which version of Linux to use?



Thanks for clearing up this and all my other errors so others don't repeat 
them.  You just exposed my Mandrake-centric view of Linux.  ;-)

On Thursday 14 February 2002 03:32 am, you wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 04:12:58PM -0600, Art Petrzelka wrote:
> > The 2.2 kernel takes up much less memory than the 2.4 kernel. The 2.4
> > kernel broke a lot of single-floppy Linux setups used for firewalls and
> > routers.
>
> Not exactly true.  Careful configuration of 2.4 *may* give even
> smaller kernel; my current one is 818626 bytes of bzImage and
> takes less than two megs of RAM itself:
>