WOOHOO! a Wedgy  :-D

I'll be there but not for long $ prevent me from a good schmoose.

Sam.

Karl Bongers wrote:

>On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:07:11AM -0600, Sam MacDonald wrote:
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>>I've spent about 6 hours attempting to find out what it is and why it's 
>>needed to install almost anything on RH 6.2 that is new.  The only good 
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>>OpenOffice.  I'm sort of to the point of installing NT and having a camp 
>>fire of Linux CD's  (I'm really tired).
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>Sam, if you come to the beer meeting tonight I'm going to give
>you a wedgy.
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>What you are trying to do is something akin to installing
>Windows NT V3.5 and install IE5.5, or a USB camera.
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>I tried installing the latest Java runtime on a dual boot NT4/Win95 box
>w/48 meg of ram yesterday.  Guess what, it sucked.  JRE said I had to
>upgrade to SP6A, and on W95 it installed but crashed horribly.
>(Whine, whine, Sam, why can't I run JRE on a Win95/48MB machine?)
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>So don't give us this bull about going back to windows to fix your
>old distro problem.  If you want to run and old distro, then run an
>old distro.
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>Chalk this up to a learning experience.  Go install a new distro,
>strip it down and run something that is less than a PIG on your
>screaming P233 w/64M ram.  I wouldn't run the latest Open Office
>on this machine, or the latest GNOME or KDE.  These are rather
>large bloated applications.  If you really must run this bloat,
>then strip off other crap to make it all bearable(fit in memory).
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>Stripping down RH9 is much more appropriate than trying to upgrade
>from RH6.  Install a minimal RH9, then turn off every single
>etc/init.d service thing.  Add the daemons back in if you need them.
>Switch to using FVWM to make room for the BIG PIG OpenOffice.
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>Maybe you were confused by Debians excellent upgradability.  RH
>is not the same.  With RH6 you can't easily upgrade to
>the lastest stuff.  Wipe RH6 and install something newer and I will
>buy you a beer instead of the wedgy.
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