Oops, that won't work then. Back to Slackware, Debian, or NetBSD. I'm sure I can have fun with one of those.Snarkout wrote:I missed your initial post that indicated what sort of hardware you're installing on - Arch is i686, unfortunately.
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The replacement laptop came today.
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Is it a Pentium Pro 166 or Pentium 166? The Pentium Pro is i686-class.mowestusa wrote:Oops, that won't work then. Back to Slackware, Debian, or NetBSD. I'm sure I can have fun with one of those.Snarkout wrote:I missed your initial post that indicated what sort of hardware you're installing on - Arch is i686, unfortunately.
Re: Distro hopping?
For a while I did quit a bit of distro hopping via multiboots and vmware on top of the various multiboots.
Started the Distro hopping after my "beloved SuSE" was bought by Novell. I was never a Novell fan and SuSE suffered in my opinion.
Started distro hopping by going to Red Hat/Fedora, then the Ubuntu versions (6.06 my favorite), then to the FreeBSD's and variants, then a bit of Gentoo (with Sabayon my favorite), then to Slackware (including Vector Linux), back to the Debian's at the 4.x level, a little Mepis, then to Solaris 10uX versions, then some Mandriva versions such as PClinuxOS, then to "free/GNU" gNewSense (very quick, very nice but limited) and back to Fedora 8, and finally to CentOS 5.1 which works well with VMWare. Used the amd64 version of CentOS 5.1 for SMP beta of Folding@Home with excellent results.
But, sort of miss my SuSE 8.x which I have an old Pentium 4 machine but can't get security updates for it.
Sticking with CentOS 5.x for its good VMWare integration and its common base with Red Hat Enterprise and its good base for development tools. Use CentOS for computational tasks and simulations. Also has good Hardware RAID Card driver support.
The Media/Codec limitations of RedHat/CentOS don't bother me since I gave up using Linux for media and data retrieval/formatting.
I have finally kicked the Distro hopping habit !
Started the Distro hopping after my "beloved SuSE" was bought by Novell. I was never a Novell fan and SuSE suffered in my opinion.
Started distro hopping by going to Red Hat/Fedora, then the Ubuntu versions (6.06 my favorite), then to the FreeBSD's and variants, then a bit of Gentoo (with Sabayon my favorite), then to Slackware (including Vector Linux), back to the Debian's at the 4.x level, a little Mepis, then to Solaris 10uX versions, then some Mandriva versions such as PClinuxOS, then to "free/GNU" gNewSense (very quick, very nice but limited) and back to Fedora 8, and finally to CentOS 5.1 which works well with VMWare. Used the amd64 version of CentOS 5.1 for SMP beta of Folding@Home with excellent results.
But, sort of miss my SuSE 8.x which I have an old Pentium 4 machine but can't get security updates for it.
Sticking with CentOS 5.x for its good VMWare integration and its common base with Red Hat Enterprise and its good base for development tools. Use CentOS for computational tasks and simulations. Also has good Hardware RAID Card driver support.
The Media/Codec limitations of RedHat/CentOS don't bother me since I gave up using Linux for media and data retrieval/formatting.
I have finally kicked the Distro hopping habit !