On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 05:20 -0800, Michael 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 > > 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.) Well last time I checked there were not any "mainstream" distros that did (at least for 486SX) so I put FreeBSD 4.8 on my laptop to when I wanted to play with a "unix like" operating system on it. It worked but was slow on my 486SX-33 with 24MB RAM. The last distro I had installed on it was Debian 2.2. Regards, Paul
