On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Laurie L Proud wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 08:53:39 +0000, you wrote: > > Steve wrote: > > > I'll second that. Even a 386 (with 8meg RAM) is just fine.
Actually, it was Steven who wrote that. I personally feel that 386's should be swept off the desktop and relegated to duties such as kiln control, weather monitoring and other such industrial activities. Of course, I'd still run Linux on those machines. > OK....and what version/distribution for dipping a toe with a .... > 486SX-33 VLB (with 8meg RAM) ? Which toe? ;-) If there's no CD-ROM and very limited hard drive space, I'd probably go with Slackware (or Steven's Slackware-derivative). If there is a CD, and you have at least ~300MB on the HD, I'd go with Red Hat 6.2. I'd probably also recommend any of the older distributions that were around when VLB was more common. I do know through personal experience that Red Hat 7.1 will not install on my VLB machine, while Red Hat 6.2 does so without complaint. (For that matter, the latest FreeBSD also goes onto VLB without complaint) - Steve
