Both can be tweaked to run on a lowly 486...
Gilboa
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 15:26 -0500, John Bray wrote:
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 02:11 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: > Considering the size of memory, I'd say RH9. > FC1 was too buggy (in my eyes) > FC2 and 3 were too heavy to be used with 196MB. (I have a similar laptop > with 256MB) > However, be advised that using such an old distro is a major security > risk. > > Another interesting option is CentOS 2.1 / RHEL 2.1. > Both are still supported and should perform fairly close to RH9. > > Gilboa > > On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 13:16 -0700, malahal@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I don't need any new features. Anything from RedHat7.3 and up should be > > fine for me. > > > you know, i have an old toshiba 300mHz p2 laptop. only 96 mb of memory, and i've been playing around with puppy linux. so far, it seems to run quite nicely. and has a remarkable number of packages available for it. you might give it a try. it has an almost live cd -- you can also have it store some of it's data on a fat32 or ext2 drive, so it start's up faster from then on. john
