Fedora follies

[Collins Richey]

On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 9:37 PM, David A. Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Debian installs in my 256Mb systems w/ RAM to spare.  I have plenty of
> Debian systems.  I want to point out differences between systems to
> help newbie admins.
>

. . .

>
> But I need a mainstream RPM distro as a reference as files are found
> in slightly different locations and a few things are modified a tiny
> bit.  If I don't point to exactly the right place, GUI folks will be
> lost.
>

OK, sounds like you have conflicting requirements

1. You want to install on vintage machines with limited ram, etc.
Debian is the most flexible for this purpose. There are, of course,
specialty distros like DSAL and Puppy that are outside the mainstream.
2. You want to point out differences using RPM based systems. The
"mainstream" systems are designed to use the latest and greatest
hardware and lots of ram. Fedora, RHEL, CentOS follow the same
pattern. SuSE (Novell) follow another pattern. Mandrake and PCLinuxOS
have yet another pattern. Try any or all of these on a PC that meets
the minimum requirements (not one of your vintage systems) and catalog
the differences. One difference you'll find immediately, is that
almost all modern systems use grub, except for some raid systems where
grub has its limitations. You may be able to coerce these systems to
use lilo, but that's way outside the mainstream.

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Collins Richey
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