RE: [newbie] Linux for 486
The machine will definately work as a terminal. Check out http://www.ltsp.org they've done some really good work in that area. Thank you guys! -Paul R -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Édison Andrés Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 6:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux for 486 I plane to put this machine like a workstation or like a terminal, but I not sure if this is possible. I think that the Java Virtual Machine can run in this Operating System. ** off topic ** Anybody knows how can I work with sockets with Turbo C++ for DOS? =?iso-8859-1?Q?Paul_Rodr=EDguez?= escribió: > There are some distribution specially dsigned for older systems. These > include: > > Tiny Linux http://tiny.seul.org/ > Hal 91 http://jspiro.tripod.com/linux/hal91.htm > Peanut Linux http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/ > MuLinux http://sunsite.dk/mulinux/ > ZipHam http://perso.libertysurf.fr/f5nlg > DLX http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/h93/h9301726/dlx.html > Grey Cat Linux http://www.intelcities.com/Coder_Canyon/theking/ > > Kde and Gnome are going to require (arguably) at least 32mb. Someone please > correct me on this, I'm not sure how much is required or recommended. With > 4 or 8 megs, you are much better off running in text only mode or running a > lighter window manager such as: > > Window Maker http://www.windowmaker.org/ > or Black Box http://blackbox.alug.org/ > > Check out this page on Window Managers for X http://www.plig.org/xwinman/ to > get an idea of the options. > > Good luck. > > -Paul R > > PS WHat are you planning to use this system for? > I have an old 386sx I'm going to be trying to use as a firewall/router soon. > Should be fun (and I'm probably going to need some help from the list when I > get started). > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ingo Bauer > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 12:49 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux for 486 > > h ... you will find distributions that will run on 4MB ... Albeit a > little slow Running X (Gnome,KDE and so on) is highly unlikely . > > Ingo > > -----Original Message- > From: Édison Andrés [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: February 21, 2001 10:58 AM > To: Linux Novatos > Subject:[newbie] Linux for 486 > > Hello everybody. > > I'm looking for a Linux versión for a 486 PC with 4 megas in RAM and a > procesor of 50 MHz. > > I want to know if I can put in this machine a StartX service? what > station of work would you recommend me? KDE? GNOME? > > Thanks for all. > > -- > Édison Andrés Rivera Noreña > Ingeniero de Sistemas > Departamento de Informática > Universidad de San Buenaventura > Medellín - Colombia > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.usb-med.edu.co/~neos > > _ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Édison Andrés Rivera Noreña Ingeniero de Sistemas Departamento de Informática Universidad de San Buenaventura Medellín - Colombia [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usb-med.edu.co/~neos _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
re: [newbie] Linux for 486
I'm not sure if I sent this out earlier, just in case, here yo are again. There are some distribution specially dsigned for older systems. These include: Tiny Linux http://tiny.seul.org/ Hal 91 http://jspiro.tripod.com/linux/hal91.htm Peanut Linux http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/ MuLinux http://sunsite.dk/mulinux/ ZipHam http://perso.libertysurf.fr/f5nlg DLX http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/h93/h9301726/dlx.html Grey Cat Linux http://www.intelcities.com/Coder_Canyon/theking/ For a fuller list check out: http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/D istributions/Tiny_Linux/ Kde and Gnome are going to require (arguably) at least 16mb. Someone please correct me on this, I'm not sure how much is required or recommended. With 4 or 8 megs, you are much better off running in text only mode or running a lighter window manager such as: Window Maker http://www.windowmaker.org/ or Black Box http://blackbox.alug.org/ Check out this page on Window Managers for X http://www.plig.org/xwinman/ to get an idea of the options. Good luck. -Paul R PS WHat are you planning to use this system for? I have an old 386sx I'm going to be trying to use as a firewall/router soon. Should be fun (and I'm probably going to need some help from the list when I get started). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ingo Bauer Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 12:49 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux for 486 h ... you will find distributions that will run on 4MB ... Albeit a little slow Running X (Gnome,KDE and so on) is highly unlikely . Ingo -Original Message- From: Édison Andrés [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: February 21, 2001 10:58 AM To: Linux Novatos Subject:[newbie] Linux for 486 Hello everybody. I'm looking for a Linux versión for a 486 PC with 4 megas in RAM and a procesor of 50 MHz. I want to know if I can put in this machine a StartX service? what station of work would you recommend me? KDE? GNOME? Thanks for all. -- Édison Andrés Rivera Noreña Ingeniero de Sistemas Departamento de Informática Universidad de San Buenaventura Medellín - Colombia [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usb-med.edu.co/~neos _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: [newbie] Linux for 486
I had x running on a PPro200 with 8 mb of ram (it was RH6.2) and it worked, but only just and it was SOOO slow... go console, or get more ram,, I think you will not find the results of X all that usable until you get 32mb -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of s Sent: Wednesday, 21 February 2001 7:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux for 486 Geez, I doubt you could run a gui on that. You should stick with a pure console. -s On Wednesday 21 February 2001 08:58 am, you wrote: > Hello everybody. > > I'm looking for a Linux versión for a 486 PC with 4 megas in RAM and a > procesor of 50 MHz. > > I want to know if I can put in this machine a StartX service? what > station of work would you recommend me? KDE? GNOME? > > Thanks for all. > > -- > Édison Andrés Rivera Noreña > Ingeniero de Sistemas > Departamento de Informática > Universidad de San Buenaventura > Medellín - Colombia > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.usb-med.edu.co/~neos
Re: [newbie] Linux for 486
On Wednesday 21 February 2001 15:58, you wrote: > Hello everybody. > > I'm looking for a Linux versión for a 486 PC with 4 megas in RAM > and a procesor of 50 MHz. > > I want to know if I can put in this machine a StartX service? > what station of work would you recommend me? KDE? GNOME? > > Thanks for all. > > -- > Édison Andrés Rivera Noreña > Ingeniero de Sistemas > Departamento de Informática > Universidad de San Buenaventura > Medellín - Colombia > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.usb-med.edu.co/~neos I've got 'mulinux 'running on my 486 with Xwindows added . It's pretty spartan but does the job very well. 16 MB of ram is the luxury version though :o) There are quite a few mindisstribs. running around, take your time to check them out. www.linuxlinks.com goes a long way. good hunting, -- Semper avanti,sailing on Linux, Harm Bathoorn Free evermore. Hoek. NL. |~> | _ ___|__.__\_|_||_... \___\_|__||_|__|__ _\_Triade__NL__/
Re: [newbie] Linux for 486
Geez, I doubt you could run a gui on that. You should stick with a pure console. -s On Wednesday 21 February 2001 08:58 am, you wrote: > Hello everybody. > > I'm looking for a Linux versión for a 486 PC with 4 megas in RAM and a > procesor of 50 MHz. > > I want to know if I can put in this machine a StartX service? what > station of work would you recommend me? KDE? GNOME? > > Thanks for all. > > -- > Édison Andrés Rivera Noreña > Ingeniero de Sistemas > Departamento de Informática > Universidad de San Buenaventura > Medellín - Colombia > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.usb-med.edu.co/~neos
Re: [newbie] Linux for 486
don't even bother running X, you would need more memory (24meg maybe) - Original Message - From: "Édison Andrés" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 11:39 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux for 486 if would had 8MB ??? Ingo Bauer escribió: > h ... you will find distributions that will run on 4MB ... Albeit a little slow Running X (Gnome,KDE and so on) is highly unlikely . > > Ingo > > -Original Message- > From: Édison Andrés [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: February 21, 2001 10:58 AM > To: Linux Novatos > Subject:[newbie] Linux for 486 > > Hello everybody. > > I'm looking for a Linux versión for a 486 PC with 4 megas in RAM and a > procesor of 50 MHz. > > I want to know if I can put in this machine a StartX service? what > station of work would you recommend me? KDE? GNOME? > > Thanks for all. > > -- > Édison Andrés Rivera Noreña > Ingeniero de Sistemas > Departamento de Informática > Universidad de San Buenaventura > Medellín - Colombia > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.usb-med.edu.co/~neos > > > >Part 1.2Type: application/ms-tnef >Encoding: base64 -- Édison Andrés Rivera Noreña Ingeniero de Sistemas Departamento de Informática Universidad de San Buenaventura Medellín - Colombia [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usb-med.edu.co/~neos
Re: [newbie] Linux for 486
I've run Caldera (can't remember the version) on a 486/25 with a 640Meg harddrive and 16 meg of ram. KDE worked o.k. for me, and the system was faster than 3.1 and way faster than W95 (which I once tried on that machine). With 4meg of ram, I just don't think you'll be able to run any windowmanager except maybe blackbox or windowmaker. KDE and Gnome are out of the question. Édison Andrés wrote: > > Hello everybody. > > I'm looking for a Linux versión for a 486 PC with 4 megas in RAM and a > procesor of 50 MHz. > > I want to know if I can put in this machine a StartX service? what > station of work would you recommend me? KDE? GNOME? > > Thanks for all. > > --
Re: [newbie] Linux for 486
I plane to put this machine like a workstation or like a terminal, but I not sure if this is possible. I think that the Java Virtual Machine can run in this Operating System. ** off topic ** Anybody knows how can I work with sockets with Turbo C++ for DOS? =?iso-8859-1?Q?Paul_Rodr=EDguez?= escribió: > There are some distribution specially dsigned for older systems. These > include: > > Tiny Linux http://tiny.seul.org/ > Hal 91 http://jspiro.tripod.com/linux/hal91.htm > Peanut Linux http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/ > MuLinux http://sunsite.dk/mulinux/ > ZipHam http://perso.libertysurf.fr/f5nlg > DLX http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/h93/h9301726/dlx.html > Grey Cat Linux http://www.intelcities.com/Coder_Canyon/theking/ > > Kde and Gnome are going to require (arguably) at least 32mb. Someone please > correct me on this, I'm not sure how much is required or recommended. With > 4 or 8 megs, you are much better off running in text only mode or running a > lighter window manager such as: > > Window Maker http://www.windowmaker.org/ > or Black Box http://blackbox.alug.org/ > > Check out this page on Window Managers for X http://www.plig.org/xwinman/ to > get an idea of the options. > > Good luck. > > -Paul R > > PS WHat are you planning to use this system for? > I have an old 386sx I'm going to be trying to use as a firewall/router soon. > Should be fun (and I'm probably going to need some help from the list when I > get started). > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ingo Bauer > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 12:49 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux for 486 > > h ... you will find distributions that will run on 4MB ... Albeit a > little slow Running X (Gnome,KDE and so on) is highly unlikely . > > Ingo > > -Original Message- > From: Édison Andrés [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: February 21, 2001 10:58 AM > To: Linux Novatos > Subject:[newbie] Linux for 486 > > Hello everybody. > > I'm looking for a Linux versión for a 486 PC with 4 megas in RAM and a > procesor of 50 MHz. > > I want to know if I can put in this machine a StartX service? what > station of work would you recommend me? KDE? GNOME? > > Thanks for all. > > -- > Édison Andrés Rivera Noreña > Ingeniero de Sistemas > Departamento de Informática > Universidad de San Buenaventura > Medellín - Colombia > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.usb-med.edu.co/~neos > > _ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Édison Andrés Rivera Noreña Ingeniero de Sistemas Departamento de Informática Universidad de San Buenaventura Medellín - Colombia [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usb-med.edu.co/~neos
RE: [newbie] Linux for 486
There are some distribution specially dsigned for older systems. These include: Tiny Linux http://tiny.seul.org/ Hal 91 http://jspiro.tripod.com/linux/hal91.htm Peanut Linux http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/ MuLinux http://sunsite.dk/mulinux/ ZipHam http://perso.libertysurf.fr/f5nlg DLX http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/h93/h9301726/dlx.html Grey Cat Linux http://www.intelcities.com/Coder_Canyon/theking/ Kde and Gnome are going to require (arguably) at least 32mb. Someone please correct me on this, I'm not sure how much is required or recommended. With 4 or 8 megs, you are much better off running in text only mode or running a lighter window manager such as: Window Maker http://www.windowmaker.org/ or Black Box http://blackbox.alug.org/ Check out this page on Window Managers for X http://www.plig.org/xwinman/ to get an idea of the options. Good luck. -Paul R PS WHat are you planning to use this system for? I have an old 386sx I'm going to be trying to use as a firewall/router soon. Should be fun (and I'm probably going to need some help from the list when I get started). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ingo Bauer Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 12:49 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux for 486 h ... you will find distributions that will run on 4MB ... Albeit a little slow Running X (Gnome,KDE and so on) is highly unlikely . Ingo -Original Message- From: Édison Andrés [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: February 21, 2001 10:58 AM To: Linux Novatos Subject: [newbie] Linux for 486 Hello everybody. I'm looking for a Linux versión for a 486 PC with 4 megas in RAM and a procesor of 50 MHz. I want to know if I can put in this machine a StartX service? what station of work would you recommend me? KDE? GNOME? Thanks for all. -- Édison Andrés Rivera Noreña Ingeniero de Sistemas Departamento de Informática Universidad de San Buenaventura Medellín - Colombia [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usb-med.edu.co/~neos _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Linux for 486
if would had 8MB ??? Ingo Bauer escribió: > h ... you will find distributions that will run on 4MB ... Albeit a little slow > Running X (Gnome,KDE and so on) is highly unlikely . > > Ingo > > -Original Message- > From: Édison Andrés [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: February 21, 2001 10:58 AM > To: Linux Novatos > Subject:[newbie] Linux for 486 > > Hello everybody. > > I'm looking for a Linux versión for a 486 PC with 4 megas in RAM and a > procesor of 50 MHz. > > I want to know if I can put in this machine a StartX service? what > station of work would you recommend me? KDE? GNOME? > > Thanks for all. > > -- > Édison Andrés Rivera Noreña > Ingeniero de Sistemas > Departamento de Informática > Universidad de San Buenaventura > Medellín - Colombia > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.usb-med.edu.co/~neos > > > >Part 1.2Type: application/ms-tnef >Encoding: base64 -- Édison Andrés Rivera Noreña Ingeniero de Sistemas Departamento de Informática Universidad de San Buenaventura Medellín - Colombia [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usb-med.edu.co/~neos
RE: [newbie] Linux for 486
h ... you will find distributions that will run on 4MB ... Albeit a little slow Running X (Gnome,KDE and so on) is highly unlikely . Ingo -Original Message- From: Édison Andrés [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: February 21, 2001 10:58 AM To: Linux Novatos Subject:[newbie] Linux for 486 Hello everybody. I'm looking for a Linux versión for a 486 PC with 4 megas in RAM and a procesor of 50 MHz. I want to know if I can put in this machine a StartX service? what station of work would you recommend me? KDE? GNOME? Thanks for all. -- Édison Andrés Rivera Noreña Ingeniero de Sistemas Departamento de Informática Universidad de San Buenaventura Medellín - Colombia [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usb-med.edu.co/~neos application/ms-tnef
[newbie] Linux for 486
Hello everybody. I'm looking for a Linux versión for a 486 PC with 4 megas in RAM and a procesor of 50 MHz. I want to know if I can put in this machine a StartX service? what station of work would you recommend me? KDE? GNOME? Thanks for all. -- Édison Andrés Rivera Noreña Ingeniero de Sistemas Departamento de Informática Universidad de San Buenaventura Medellín - Colombia [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usb-med.edu.co/~neos