On 3/18/08, Virden, Larry W. <lvirden@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I unfortunately don't have the laptop model with me right now, nor the > model of the wireless card - two really good pieces of information that > I should have gotten before I posted. I apologize. > > As for what I mean by old - the laptop is 7 or more years old, I'd > hazard a guess. > > How can I tell between RH and RHEL? > hi there typing uname -a would give you the kernel version which allows you to approximate the age of the distro RHEL4 is based on the 2.6 kernel line whereas RH4 would be 2.4 or earlier i have a Dell L400 which is about 8 yrs old. it has 256MB of RAM and used to have an 8GB hard drive (now replaced with a 16GB SSD) i use a broadcom 802.11g wifi card and it all works very well using fedora 8. it tends to get a bit hot doing intensive stuff like makewhatis but is ideal for what i do with it which is pretty much what you want to do with your laptop. best wishes mike -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
