Re: [seul-edu] Re: Best wm for tiny slow computers?

["Ralph M. Deal" <deal@kzoo.edu>]

Michael Shigorin wrote:

> Then one more -- RH has *amazing* support for old releases (no
> one beats them here), but any such support ends -- 3.0.3 is no
> more, for example ;-)  So if the installation is sort of massive,
> consider difference in squeezing new distro on small disk versus
> applying all updates.  

I obtained one of the last version of 6.2 but cannot get it to
load properly.  (kernel panic).  At this point, the computers for 
which I worked on a compact RH6.2 have all been sold but I'm continuing
working on the project hoping that some poorly funded school with old
computers may find the saving in operating system makes conversion to
LINUX worthwhile.

> And again -- lots of things have changed
> in *usability* aside of basic *security*.

I'm sure that is right and that RH will not continue indefinitely to
support 6.2 updates.  If 7.2 is impossible on these systems, I may try
some other distribution; several have  been mentioned that are smaller
than RH 7.2.

> PS: if you go after space, your best friends will be
> # du / | sort -rn | less
> and careful rm -rf in /usr/share.

I've learned to appreciate du.  When I tried to execute the sequence
above,
I get 
du: `/;proc/26785/fd/4': No such file or directory
Frustrating.
 
> Some kind of autosqueezer for RH5.1 is attached; PLEASE DO READ
> it before running.  You can safely ignore (or delete) stuff about
> easy-cyrillic, it was locally specific ;-)
> 
> --
>  ---- WBR, Michael Shigorin <mike@altlinux.ru>
>   ------ http://visa.chem.univ.kiev.ua/~mike/

I enjoyed your script, even with the easy-cyrillic.  I'm incorporating
some
of the code in my own scrips lately.

	Thanks,   Ralph    deal@kzoo.edu