On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 20:36 +0100, Paul wrote: > Hi, > > > I was wondering what Fedora would run great on an IBM POS machine with > > a Cyrix 166 and 32mb of memory. > > In theory, you should be able to get FC5 to run on that. That said, in > theory WinXP will run on a top end 486, but neither is gonna happen. > Really speaking, you may get FC2 to run on that, but you'd be better off > with something like slackware > > > I am looking on running a Java Application. Any help you can switch > > my way would be great. You could get FC5 to install, but not in graphical mode, and doubtful X would work very well, so inittab mode 3, will take a long time to install on that slow a processor and that small amount of memory, might be good as a print server, I'd suggest making the swap file really big, like 1 gig, as it will be swapping like crazy erich
