On Thursday 24 July 2003 04:09, Erylon Hines wrote: > From experience, the only distros that will work well on these machines are > old (meaning less eye-candy) and out-of-date. I have a P75 with 32 meg > that does fine on the 486 (Yes, 486) version of Mandrake 7.01. Those > machines were tedious with any version (even 7.x) optimized for the Penium. > RedHat 386 (circa 6.x) ran fine on a P90 with 32 megs. An old Caldera 2.4 > was o.k. on a P75 with 16 megs, but nothin' to write home about. Can't > give you any url's to dl, but at least some should be available. Where > are you??, I could burn you a copy of mdk for 486 and mail it, if you are > in the U.S. or Canada. No way I can load it to you--I'm on dial-up 8(. > > ]On Wednesday 23 July 2003 05:21 pm, ThinKer wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I've just inherited two very old machines (Original Pentium with 16MB > > RAM each). I was wondering if there was anything I can download and > > install on these machines. They are currently running Windows 95 and > > they have Network cards already installed. I can put them on my network > > and browse the Intenet. I would like to install some flavor of Linux. > > Maybe a network or boot-floppy installation (since they only have 3.5 > > inch floppies) that will help me get more familiar with the way Linux > > works. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Thinker
I had the best (that's talking speed) results with Slackware7.1 on a simular machine. If you want more modern stuf try out Slack9.1, but don't try KDE or Gnome. Using a leightweight window-manager makes it usable but fairly slow. If you can get your hands on more RAM you get much better results....above 64M you can even use a slow KDE3. Above that Mandrake9.1 will even run acceptably. Check out the speednix list Todd put up for more tips: http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Good luck, HarM
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