[CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

Always Learning wrote:
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> Thanks for the Ubuntu recommendation. I tend to buy the DVD's and
> install from them. I have VBox running Win98SE on a Centos desktop
> because I want to run software and applications from 1992 (my own DOS
> Cobol database) which also runs in DosBox, 1993 (my customised Ami Pro

Why not install gcc, and recompile your COBOL for Linux? <g>
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        mark, pulling a brown paper bag over his head before admitting
                 to having written a *lot* of COBOL back before I got to
                 Unix