Thank you very much for your reply Mohan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Saltzman" <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 10:01 PM Subject: Re: Could an Intel 486 wake up with FC3 > On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Steven Pasternak wrote: > > > On Sunday 30 January 2005 03:23, Kumara wrote: > >> 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 ThX in advance > >> Mohan > > It might. It CAN'T run i586 or i686 rpms though. I would advice older > > software, like RH6.2 (it is painful, but does at least have the kde and gnome > > desktop). Most kernel 2.6.x based distros only build the kernel for i586+ and > > that most kernel <2.6 build for i386+. Besides, old software is for old > > hardware and is better for low RAM and low HD space. My old i486 still runs > > Win95! The 'power of linux' that was written for this old thing is kernel > > ~1.x-2.0! > > I have a 486 laptop running RH7.3 as a firewall. It's quite happy running > kernel-2.4.20-37.7.legacy, iptables, no X. That version of GNOME was the > last "lightweight" one, though. If you need X on your hardware, XFCE is > the way to go. There are other distros that are designed for older/slower > hardware too, but I couldn't refer you to one at this point. > > See also www.rule-project.org. They have low-memory installers for RH8 > and RH9. They are supposed to be working on an FC-based version, but I > haven't seen much progress recently. > > You can't install FC on anything less than an i586 now without rebuilding > pieces of it (no i386 kernel, for example), and it looks like FC4 will > abandon even that. > > -- > Matthew Saltzman > > Clemson University Math Sciences > mjs AT clemson DOT edu > http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > >
