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Re: [LUG] Red Hat vs Debian - the big fight!



It installed fine on my HP OmniBook with 32Mb. I do
however remeber it saying something about using swap
space as the physical memory was "very low".

Microsoft pushes the sales of PC's by making bigger
and more resource hungry OS's, maybe RedHat is 
following :-| You can see the corparate show down
coming:

 RedHat V's WindRiver V's Microsoft

Col.


On 08 Aug 2001 10:27:43 +0100, Alex Charrett wrote:
> I went to install Red Hat 7.1 on my laptop last night.  Got the pcmica boot
> disk, made the cd's available over ftp.  *BUT* When I got into the installer, it
> gave me a fatal error that I didn't have enough memory to install Red Hat 7.1.
> 
> Not enough memory!  I ask you! It's got 24mb in it! Bah.
> 
> At this point I got somewhat enraged and installed Debian on it instead.
> 
> I'm not sure what redhat are aiming for, but I'm not convinced it's a terribly
> good idea anymore.
> 
> Alex
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