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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] What BL version to choose?
  • Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 16:55:48 +0000 (UTC)

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

Long Nguyen wrote:

What version of BL would you recommend for the following machines:
1) 486 DX2 66Mhz, 32 MB RAM
2) Pentium 166 Mhz, 72 MB RAM

Personally, I would use BL3 with the 486 and BL2 with
the Pentium. With 72mb RAM the Pentium is powerful
enough to run demanding glibc binaries (like Opera),
which is easier on a BL2 foundation.

However, when I have a bit of spare time, I'd like
to experiment with installing libraries from a recent
Slackware on BL3 and trying to run Opera (or Phoenix).


Cheers,
Steven

Opera 7.5x is available compiled for Slackware 7.1 so should not even need a recent Slackware glibc. 7.23 needed glibc2.2.5 (SW8.1).

BL2 already comes with 'user' and a regular X server set up, which some people need for linux classes. lpr can't be run as 'root'.




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