You should be able to run a recent Slackware distribution. See http://sunsetsystems.com/tip-lowmem.php3 for some of my old notes on this topic.
-- Rod http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ On Tuesday 08 January 2002 07:44 pm, Gabriel Rosa wrote: > 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
