older distros and machine for sale wasRe: [oclug] Kudos to Vic! :-)

[Brad Barnett]

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:23:36 -0400 (EDT)
Robert Brockway <robert at timetraveller.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Peter Timusk wrote:
> 
> > Vic or anyone else. I wonder about the debian 2.1 distro. It seems
> > only one US archive is on line. I was thinking of downloading the
> > whole thing piece by piece but maybe someone can find the CD's for
> > this distro. I would like a disk set or a pointer to the ftp site
> > where I can download the iso. Like much software the older versions
> > although insecure are worth having to refurbish older machines that
> > can't run the newer versions. Thus saving some machines from the
> > landfill.
> 
> Hi Peter.  I'd be very surprised if you found the memory requirements of
> Debian 3.0 were much more (or any more) than 2.1.  Any vaugely modern
> system should be usable with a modern distro.  The minimum memory to
> install Debian 2.1 or Debian 3.0 should be the same.
> 

I have heard reports that it is a bit more memory hungry on the install. 
Maybe if I'm bored one day I'll do a real comparison. ;)

Still, if one were to upgrade from 2.1 to 3.0 _after_ the install, and
kept a 2.2 series kernel, memory requirements should be close.