On Fri, 26 May 2000, Hoyt wrote:
> I should have made myself more clear. There does exist a 486 version of
> Mandrake 7.0, but it too low priority and is not available on fast servers.
I should also have made myself clear.
I downloaded and burned the 7.0 for my father's 486 laptop and already a
friend of mine asked me for it and installed it on a desktop 486 at home.
** What I meant was: please continue to offer 486 versions of your future
distributions, even if they are on very few mirrors. **
A side-effect of this is that people (newbie, journalists) will more
easily understand and spread the knowledge that:
1) Mandrake is optimized for Pentium or better processors
2) Linux and especially Mandrake Linux can also run on old hardware.
(Though you shouldn't try to launch Gnome + StarOffice on your 486 with 4
or 8Mb RAM, better stick with icewm or text mode or make it a
small server).
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