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Now that I have a PC at home, its time to move beyond the MKS stuff and
really install some form of UNIX.  Linux looks good, but the problem is:

        1.  I'm not looking to shell out plenty of money; in particular
            I have NO intention of buying a CD-ROM player, therefore I
            need to find a floppy distributor, preferably one who will
            deal by mail.

        2.  I don't have a huge configuration -- just an old 386 (American
            Megatrends) with a Weitek coprocessor, 5MB RAM, and 2 100 MB
            hard drives.  Luckily, I have no desire to run X-Windows --
            the most computationally-intensive programs I intend to run
            are groff and gcc (maybe g++).

So, can anyone recommend a distribution or distributor appropriate for my
situation?  Should I pack up and look elsewhere?  Or what?

Thanks to all,
  Mike Zraly

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Michael S. Zraly                |       "Do not meddle in the affairs

You can find linux on the net to download to floppy at:

        sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/distributions

Quote:>    2.  I don't have a huge configuration -- just an old 386 (American
>        Megatrends) with a Weitek coprocessor, 5MB RAM, and 2 100 MB
>        hard drives.  Luckily, I have no desire to run X-Windows --
>        the most computationally-intensive programs I intend to run
>        are groff and gcc (maybe g++).

Thats almost like what I have -- I'd recommend one of the smaller, and
very efficient distributions like MCC.  It too can be found on sunsite (see
site listing above) --  there are postscript manuals to print out for
this new MCC 1.0+ distribution (it puts you up to 1.0.4)  -- it takes
just 5 disks to get what you need (which means the basics of the filesystem
and other necessary stuff, gcc, groff, netstuff, etc)

Quote:>So, can anyone recommend a distribution or distributor appropriate for my
>situation?  Should I pack up and look elsewhere?  Or what?

CHeck out what I told you, and then mail me if you have further inquiry