On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 05:20 -0800, Michael 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
You'd probably have better luck with a more minimalist distro as a machine of that kind isn't going to have the resources required to run most of the stuff that comes with Fedora. I'm not every sure if Fedora comes with i386 packages still. (Anyone know? I don't feel like checking.)
Well last time I checked there were not any "mainstream" distros that did (at least for 486SX) so I put FreeBSD 4.8 on my laptop to when I wanted to play with a "unix like" operating system on it.
It worked but was slow on my 486SX-33 with 24MB RAM. The last distro I had installed on it was Debian 2.2.
Regards, Paul