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I am not sure how that helps?

It does. Trust me.

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...which version is best for which level of hardware?

Read my reply again, especially the part that says they weren't released in order of hardware suitability. That means the current one suffices for whichever i486+ hardware you have.

Hi,
Thank you for your reply. For some reason from posts in the forum, I was under the impression that the latest version was not as good as earlier versions with the much older hardware.
But that appears to be wrong.
Alan
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I was under the impression that the latest version was not as good as earlier versions with the much older hardware.


No, it's not quite that simple. There was a kernel change (to 2.4.31) in DSL 2.1 that improved hardware support to a degree but it was an unpopular move. So DSL went back to the previous kernel (2.4.26) in subsequent releases (through 3.4x which is current). The early release candidates of DSL 4 have a newer kernel (2.4.34.1). It apparently didn't resolve some of the new hardware issues so the developer went back to the kernel from DSL 2.1 because it had more support than the more recent kernel.

The issue is trying to support NEWER hardware. There's no loss of support (yet) for older hardware in recent versions (so use current unless you have SATA, etc.). DSL remains among the best options for people with functional vintage hardware because it's continually (make that incessantly) developed without sacrificing older hardware.
Thank you for clearing that up for me.
Alan
General questions should not be posted in Site News.

However, for least capable hardware, use combinations of the boot codes to not use all features available.

Press F2 and/or F3 at the initial boot prompt to view such.

We even have a lowram option which is a combination of boot options.
The net 'man' command is no longer working as it seems the url used to fecth the man pages (http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?) is no longer valid.

I noticed that in DSL 3.4.1.
I'd guess this probably affect DSL 4.0 RC1 too.
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