Subj : Re: Linux For P4
To : MORTIFIS
From : ROB MCCART
Date : Tue Jan 22 2019 05:04 pm
RM> > I looked into the suggestions but I think the biggest problem might be tha
> > I would require Dial-Up support, and I'm not sure 'modern' Linux distros
> > support that.
MO>Most Linux Distros have dial-up support.
Thanks for your information. I'm keeping notes from this if I decide to
try to get things going with Linux again.
RMO> > I'm not sure how upgradable Linux distros tend to be without a full
> > reinstall. I did try a Puppy Linux version several years back which looked
> > promising
MO> Most Linux Distros are Live Up-gradable ... Debian compatible (Debian 9,
>Ubuntu, Raspbian PC, etc) using apt-get update && apt-get upgrade commands a
>install packages is as simple as apt-get install <package-name>.
What I meant by upgradable, and maybe you are answering what I asked, was
if You have a version of Linux running that is several years old, and you
may prefer the older distro for a very old computer, is it possible to just
replace the Browser and maybe eMail programs with newer ones or would it
involve downloading a full OS version ?
I believe when I looked into the version of Puppy Linux I was trying out
several years ago they supported Dial-up but only at 14.4k.. If you
wanted 56k support you had to pay for it (better drivers I assume)..
The problem with dial-up and virtually all new computer programming is that
no one ever thinks someone is still out there on dial-up and so distos of
everything are huge. Web pages that I could duplicate using 100k of data
often take 3 or 4 meg to load.. No one worries that a simple browser is
50 meg because that's takes just seconds on high speed, but where I live
most of the year a 50 meg file would take me 7 hours to download assuming
nothing interrupted that download and you had to start over. One 35 meg
anti-virus program I had to download 5 times to finally get a working copy.
I guess I'll have to decide if it's worth getting into the finer points
of a whole new Operating System since Linux in general doesn't self
install a lot of stuff and in newer distros, things from older distros
tend to be dropped so legacy support gets less and less over the years.
Having had computers since about 1983, Apple and PC, I've had to work my
way through a lot of changes so I'm sure I can manage it if I have to..
Thanks for your input..
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