Stick with Red Hat 7.3?

Hi,

this may seem a major heresy for the Valhalla list, but here goes :-)

I currently have a P120 running RH 7.3 (albeit not very well).

My major problem is the time it takes to recompile.
This severely limits the experimentation I can do with kernel building.

I have just bought a 2.6GHZ Celeron system (for under £300!) to be my new
Linux development system.

With this I can presumably also compile kernels for my old system as long as
I keep the source trees seperate (probably safer than just using different
build files).

So do I go for the latest greatest version of Red Hat (whatever it is now
called) - which may be beyond the spec. of my oldest machine - or choose
from 9, 8, or stay with 7.

I am quite happy to stay with RH 7.3 as long as it is compatible with my new
system. This has sound, network and graphics all on the motherboard and I
don't know if recent MBs are supported by RH 7.3.

All my manuals are RH7 - releases change far faster than the manuals,
generally :-)

Any advice welcomed.

Cheers
Dave R