Ronald J. Hall wrote: >I just got this e-mail from a friend of mine who does the computing stuff at >the local county library. They used mixed OS's there, but he is a big 'Nix >fan. > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Got a quick question for ya. would you be interested in trying to >get linux (mandrake 8.something) installed on some 486 and lower >pentium >class computers for Auxier Life time Learning Center (schools Are >us)?? > >Charlie Schaffer may be sending you an email about how much linux can >be installed on anywhere from 500meg to 1gig drives. > >it is a microsoft thing that is causing them difficulties >with licensing so thought of you . Ill be glad to help if I can >but only if you are there too. >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >SO my question is - can Mandrake 8.x be installed on 486's? I know this has >come up before. If 8.x can't work, is there still an available version that >will? We have T-1's at the Library - can grab just about any size ISO image. > >Love to help Mandrake Linux get another foothold somewhere locally where a >lot of people would be exposed to it. We are doing this voluntarily (no pay). > >Thanks much guys! > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > There was a 7.0 version for 486, and it should not be difficult to take the srpms for 7.1 and compile them using the 486-enabled 7.0 and the right flags for rpm --rebuild. 7.1 was freaking beautiful; the last with KDE 1.1.2 and 45Meg of KDE themes whose like we have not seen again (and in fact if ever the legacy theme importer on KDE works we still have nothing like them today). I can send you earlier versions, but they are not compiled for 486 and under until you get to 5.3 which was only optimized for pentium but would work on earlier architectures. If you want 5.3, which was quite neat in its day and had a sound effect for nearly every GUI action, just get it from www.civileme.net/Software If you want the apps for 5.3, write to me privately and I will make a CD of those that can now be distributed.
The disk space is no problem, but I would be concerned about the memory on the machines. 5.3 will work well on 32M with GUI but 7.0/7.1 would require 64. Servers are best off with 6.1 and the last kernel it was given on security updates, but that one really does need Pentium. Of course none of these are compliant with the Linux Standard Base. They were al;l made prior to its adoption. Civileme Civileme
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