so what you want is a stripped down, recompiled, runs on a 486, and you 
want it without working at it, with a modern gui install, and full hardware 
detection?

no operating system ever created meets those specs.  none.

why not just wish for world peace?

On Tuesday 12 March 2002 15:27, john rigby opened a hailing frequency and 
transmitted:

> Hi Lee,
> Thanks for your info, but you are a Power-User by the sound of the box
> specs! :-)
> I'm trying to determine if Linux - especially Mandrake is "true" to the
> old idea of not needing a monster box to run.
> I know of Linux Servers that are running on Steam-powered old things and
> just don't fall over.
> The sad thing is that I don't know anyone not at least a p/time geek who
> has made it all go without enough research and effort for a PhD.
>
> And of course, you mentioned 8.2 - which isn't even "there" for us
> chickens. Altho I noticed it got a couple of accolades on fixing earlier
> problems in reviews.
>

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up by four thousand Nimda servers infected with IIS.

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