Derek Jennings wrote: >Mandrake 8.1 is compiled for a Pentium class machine. It aint gonna run on a >486. > There are versions for i386 (and therefore 486's), though I don't know if 8.2 is among them. Certainly earlier releases of Mandrake are available. On this subject, while I appreciate the i586 optimsation, I also think it's important to keep supporting i386. I know that in Europe and North America you'd be hard-pressed to find a charity that would accept your old 486, but here in the developing world we have the weird situation where secretaries who do nothing but write letters in Word 2000 which could have just as well been done in Notepad and write the occasional e-mail get Pentium IV's, while most State schools, if they have computers at all have 486's or worse. A Turkish LUG recently had a campaign in which they'd go out to schools and install Linux on whatever aging hardware they found (mainly 386 or 486's running Windows 3.1). OK, people who want to do this kind of thing have a lot of alternatives, but I still think Mandrake is the best distribution for this kind of thing (BrandLoyalty (TM)).
Sir Robin
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