I had a bad experience attempting to install SuSE on my old 486. It was so
painfully slow that I decided that I would never again venture into this
territory. But, I do respect those who have the patience to do something
useful w. old legacy stuff.
Certainly, many distributions are tuned for Pentium and up; but others such as
Mandrake have a 486 option that is, perhaps, less painful and more likely to
succeed.
I guess "Go to Red Hat" really got under your skin. I apologize.
Rodney
"Linux Rocks!" wrote:
> I never liked redhat... i tried rh4, 5, and 6... they all suck in my
> opinion, but many like it... whats the matter with 486's?
>
> Jamie
>
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Rodney Mishima wrote:
>
> > Jamie,
> >
> > Nothing personal.
> >
> > Just my own "buyer's remorse". I actually coughed up $80 for Red Hat 6.1
> > Deluxe and have recently seen it discounted as low as $30. Plus, I got
> > bitten by a couple of "show stoppers" during the install I did 3 months
> > ago. When I see others installing it today and getting bitten by the
> > same problems that I experienced; and have difficulty retracing the work
> > around solutions, I just get a little impatient. Not as bad as the
> > Windows environment, but fortunately other Linux options are available.
> >
> > I guess about 1+years ago, Red Hat had a more favorable reputation which
> > has been tainted by my own 6.1 install experience.
> >
> > Rodney
>
> > "Linux Rocks!" wrote:
> >
> > > > 486 experts need not apply. Go to Red Hat.
> > > uhh.... what is this soposed to mean?
