On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 04:58:18PM -0000, Srinivasan S wrote: > Hi, > > I have an old 486 PC with Windoze 95 .. ... > rather than throw it away I want to install Linux and give it to my > daughter for education ... Can I install Fedora ? What is the best > linux to install on a 486 PC/540 MB Hard disk/32 MB RAM ? All help > is appreciated Regards Srini Without additional DRAM and more disk Fedora and other Linux distributions are not a good fit. The FreeBSD project has a tiny distribution but that is bare bones old style command line Unix for the most part. One FreeBSD group was working on a package that ran off the CDROM and only had volatile info like etc/passwd /tmp $HOME on the disk. If you are into tinkering that sounds like fun. A 700MB CROM fixed FS + 540MB of disk adds up to enough to be interesting. The CDROM cannot be written to by a hacker... Interesting idea for a firewall. You said "my daughter for education". Is she a computer science major or a six year old. If she is a six year old leave it running Win95 and hunt for educational software at flea markets or search on the internet. Put it behind a firewall. Expect to reload the disk often. The entire 540MB disk fits on a CDROM so a reload could be simplified. -- T o m M i t c h e l l /dev/null the ultimate in secure storage.
