He's got 32 RAM, Probably will use it for the desktop as well as a little development work, also. Mostly he's just curious about Linux. So what was the distro you used on the 486 before? I'm not looking for any new distros, really, I know most of them need at least 64 (at the very least!) megs of RAM and all, I was thinking more of the lines of old distros like redhat 5.2, early versions of slackware, and others like that?
- JJ Ferro --- Rick Moen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Jayjay Ferro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I have a friend who wants to learn Linux on his > old pentium 133. What > > version distro can I recommend, as I understand > that the latest ones > > will probably be very slow running on his > machine? > > Time plays tricks on one's self. I used a 486 with > 64MB RAM for a > simultaneous X11 desktop machine and multipurpose > Internet server for > many years. Of course, this was before people let > RAM flow away like > water, loading Star Office, galloping herds of > autoloaded KDE and GNOME > tasks, the GIMP, Mozilla, KMail, Evolution, and > other piglets. > > Anyhow: (1) You didn't say how much RAM. A P133 > with 32 MB is anemic, > while a P133 with 128MB RAM might be perfectly fine. > > (2) I don't know of any distribution that won't at > least install on > a P133, given minimal RAM requirements (sometimes 64 > MB), and of course > enough disk space for whatever set of installable > packages you select. > > (3) You didn't say what sort of user your friend is. > Is he looking to > learn Unix system administration, do development > work, be a "desktop" > user, or what? > > -- > Cheers, There are only 10 types of people > in this world -- > Rick Moen those who understand binary > arithmetic and those who don't. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _ > Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives > at http://plug.linux.org.ph > To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send > "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes http://autos.yahoo.com _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
