On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Holland, Matt wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good Linux distro for an old machine (486 w/ 12 MB > RAM)? I've managed to install TINY Linux, which is based on Slackware 3.5 > or so, but I think I'd like something a bit more polished. All of the major > distributions require at least 32 MB RAM AFAIK, so they're out. I also > tried OpenBSD, but had problems (it's been awhile, so I don't remember > precisely what went wrong). >
I ran Debian on an old 486 laptop with 16mb ram that I bought from Remington a long time ago. It was quite useable, I did most of my ecs30 programming on it, but I didn't bother running X on it. -Gabe _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
