Could somebody advice me if it is a good idea to do so.
I have an Intel 486 DX4-S mechine with 504MBs of HDD
and 16MB's of RAM. it is hardly running windows 98 and Internet. (very slow and with a lot of crashes and stucks).
could someone advice me to put FC1 on it and test???
May I try it? hope your advice from the list. I want to enjoy the power of Linux in different ways
You'd probably have better luck with a more minimalist distro as a machine of that kind isn't going to have the resources required to run most of the stuff that comes with Fedora. I'm not every sure if Fedora comes with i386 packages still. (Anyone know? I don't feel like checking.)
Do you have any other Linux computers? If you do then you can run your programs on them and use your older machine as a terminal using XDMCP, VNC, or whatever. That'd mean that you could get by with a very basic install of Linux and X without needing much in the way of extra software installed. It'd also probably run your programs much faster than your 486. If you want this to be a desktop machine I'd suggest going that route.
As an alternative, if the 486 has a cd drive then I'd suggest trying a cd-based distro. You could use your hard drive just for saving your own files to. Again it might take some work to find one that'll run on such a limited machine but I expect it's doable. Look at Morphix maybe.
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