[NTLUG:Discuss] Red Hat 7.2 or 7.3?

[Wayne Dahl]

Hi again guys and gals.

Ok, I'm getting ready to upgrade this ancient Compaq of mine that has Red 
Hat 5.2 currently installed and running on it.  I can upgrade to either Red 
Hat 7.2 or 7.3 (I have both).  Which would you upgrade to and why?  What 
are the major differences between 7.2 and 7.3?  I bought a Sams book, Red 
Hat Linux 7.2 Unleashed which should help answer a lot of my questions 
about learning to run Linux.  Of course, no book will answer all questions, 
but hopefully it'll answer my more basic ones.  ;)

Thanks for the help you've already given me and I will thank you for your 
opinions in advance about which version I should upgrade to.  To refresh 
the information about the computer this is going on...

Compaq Presario CDS-982, originally a P-90, upgraded to a P-120
56 Megs Memory
2 Hard drives, one 740 Meg (the original drive) and one 1.6 Gig Western 
Digital HD
1 SCSI Jaz drive, Adaptec AHA-1540CF/1542CF SCSI adapter
an old 3-Com Etherlink III 3C509B type Ethernet card.
Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 (Turbo) Video Adapter
US Robotics Sportster 56K modem
Iomega Ditto 3.2 Gig tape drive

This thing isn't upgradeable much any more.  I think it won't take any 
memory above 128 Megs...could put bigger HD's in I guess, but not sure what 
the BIOS will support (is that a factor?).  I have a newer Compaq Presario 
I got for free from FreePC before they went defunct.  That's the one I have 
Win98 on right now and the one I'm using Eudora on for email (I love 
Eudora...wish Qualcomm would make a Linux port of it) and I may well add 
another HD to it and make it dual bootable into Linux and Windoze.  But 
that will come later, after I've gotten more familiar with Linux and 
learning to administrate it.

Thanks again,

Wayne