Mandrake 6.1 runs fine on a 486. If you select custom install, you can
choose what pacakges to install. You don't need any of the GUI junk. I
have a machine running happily as a mail server with Mandrake 6.1 on it.
It has a 400 meg hard drive, a 486/33 and 32 megs RAM. Works fine. It's
been running nonstop for a couple of months with no glitches.
Davor Cengija wrote:
>
> On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, John Connell wrote:
>
> >Hi All!
> > As much as I would like to use LM on my "new" machine I will be
> > unable to. (33mHz, 16RAM, 350HDD) Can anyone suggest a good "text
> > based" version of the Linux OS? Appreciate it much!
>
> You don't have to install XWindow system (and then you'll have
> so called 'text based' OS).
>
> Check http://www.freshmeat.net for the list of distributions
> which fit on a small disks, although 350MB is not too small.
>
> Mandrake 6.1 runs (only?) on Pentiums, so you should find some
> older version (5.3 maybe).
>
> Debian's good for smaller systems, people say, but it's not so
> simple to maintain
> --
> v
> Davor Cengija
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