On Monday 06 May 2002 14:55, Michael Adams opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations:
> > > Mandrake won't run on a 486 or 386 as it is compiled for pentiums. I > > > beleive there is a 486 distro downloadable (from memory). > > > > Thanks for the info, much appreciated. Will see what I can find in the > > 'net. skinky > > There was a thread on that 486 distro either last year or very eary this > year try the newbie-archives. Alternatively, redhat is compiled AFAIK to > run on 386 or better. <Michael ducks for cover after suggesting > altenative distro> you better bucky! :P seriously, does it matter? i mean try and run XP on a 486, then realize there is a reason we are fooling with linux... depending on what you want the machine to do, either http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Distributions/ or http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Distributions/Tiny/ may be a big help to you. -- "... and if you drown, die knowing you were headed for the shore." -from farenheight 451 shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/
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