Leon Brooks wrote: > On Thursday 18 October 2001 08:53, you wrote: > >>duh. You gonna be using that 486 for much more than a >>server/router/gateway/firewall/fs? >> > > Yes, as a thin X client. Not, I hasten to add, for using FlightGear or > TuxRacer (or - normally - even The GIMP) on, just dinky little 2D apps like > KMail, Konqueror and Konsole. > > There are a *lot* of 486es out there which are useful in this capacity. Some > of them will be diskless, in which case the ``distro'' would be installed to > be a remote-bootable image on a better machine rather than as the > primary/only installation on a 386/486. > > >
in which case the entire point, getting the installer and base to work on 386+, doesn't apply.
