Thank you very much for your reply
Mohan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Saltzman" <mjs(a)ces.clemson.edu>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list(a)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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