On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 07:37:35PM -0800, 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 had no difficulty installing Debian 2.1 (slink) on a 486 with 8Mb a few years ago. (Still chugging away as a DNS server.) I have not used Slackware, but I expect Slackware is even more trim than Debian. Also, FreeBSD is quite resource-light. -- Henry House The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp> for information. My OpenPGP key: <http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.
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