Thank you very much for your reply Mohan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Saltzman" mjs@ces.clemson.edu To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" fedora-list@redhat.com Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 10:01 PM Subject: Re: Could an Intel 486 wake up with FC3
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Steven Pasternak wrote:
On Sunday 30 January 2005 03:23, Kumara wrote:
Could somebody advice me if it is a good idea to do so. I have an Intel 486 DX4-S mechine with 504MBs of HDD and 16MB's of RAM. it is hardly running windows 98 and Internet. (very
slow
and with a lot of crashes and stucks). could someone advice me to put
FC1
on it and test??? May I try it? hope your advice from the list. I want to enjoy the power
of
Linux in different ways ThX in advance Mohan
It might. It CAN'T run i586 or i686 rpms though. I would advice older software, like RH6.2 (it is painful, but does at least have the kde and
gnome
desktop). Most kernel 2.6.x based distros only build the kernel for
i586+ and
that most kernel <2.6 build for i386+. Besides, old software is for old hardware and is better for low RAM and low HD space. My old i486 still
runs
Win95! The 'power of linux' that was written for this old thing is
kernel
~1.x-2.0!
I have a 486 laptop running RH7.3 as a firewall. It's quite happy running kernel-2.4.20-37.7.legacy, iptables, no X. That version of GNOME was the last "lightweight" one, though. If you need X on your hardware, XFCE is the way to go. There are other distros that are designed for older/slower hardware too, but I couldn't refer you to one at this point.
See also www.rule-project.org. They have low-memory installers for RH8 and RH9. They are supposed to be working on an FC-based version, but I haven't seen much progress recently.
You can't install FC on anything less than an i586 now without rebuilding pieces of it (no i386 kernel, for example), and it looks like FC4 will abandon even that.
-- Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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