Which Linux (again, I suspect)

Tim Burgess tim.burgess at blazie.co.uk
Tue Aug 13 06:39:38 EDT 2002


Hi all,

Some of you will almost certainly groan to see me back again after my
abortive attempts to get Linux going on some decrepit hardware.  The
good news is that I now have access to something a little better with a
network card that's supported.  I've got a Sony Vao laptop running at
600 MHz.  I've got Slackware 7.1 and some kind soul gave me a V8.0 CD,
which I can't lay my hands on.  I notice that 8.1 is out and I have
intermittent access to an ADSL link.  Two questions:

1 - Should I go for Slackware 8.1 or another distro?

2 - Can somebody give me a complete download URL to get what I need -
I'll be telling somebody else what to do and I don't want to mess them
around.  I noticed on the Slackware site that there were two links for
8.1, one of which was called an ISA image.  This terminology confused me
- is it an ISA image I'm looking for in order to burn it onto a CD?

All suggestions and advice gratefully accepted.

Cheers.

Tim





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