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On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Ray Olszewski wrote:
>
> If I recall correctly, all the newer versions require at least 8 megs
> to install. You might check Slackware, which has always been the best
> at supporting ancient and weird hardware, to see if it still have a 4
> meg option. Or try some of the smaller distributions, like monkey
> Linux or small Linux, that come on a few floppies. (Find them at
> ftp://metalab.unc.edu/linux/distributions).
>
Slackware '96 recommended 8 megabytes of RAM, but only required four --
that was with the 2.0.0 kernel, I think. :)
I may still have the CD somewhere around here, but I doubt it. My
recommendation would be an older version of Debian... I think CheapBytes
still has a lot of versions of Debian around. Check them out :).
>
> You cna expect slow performance. This will be okay if you just want a
> look at how Linux works, but you'll probably get frustrated fairly
> quickly.
>
Well, a 386 still has many good uses, as a small Intranet server, or
router, or small internal email server or... the list goes on and on. :^)
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