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To: Gerald Walls who wrote (822)8/25/1999 4:33:00 PM
From: Steve Chang  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1794
 
Red herring. While it certainly is possible to install Linux on a 386 system it isn't feasible. I have Red Hat 6.0 running on a 486-75 with 24 meg of RAM and it is just barely usable in command line mode. Anyone who claims otherwise is blowing smoke.

Of course you can run an older distribution just fine. I have a 486-80 which runs an early version of Slackware and a kernel < 1.0.

It still boots up and works fine as a news server last time I checked.



To: Gerald Walls who wrote (822)8/26/1999 1:17:00 PM
From: Eric Sandeen  Respond to of 1794
 
I have Red Hat 6.0 running on a 486-75 with 24 meg of RAM and it is just barely usable in command line mode. Anyone who claims otherwise is blowing smoke.

I have RH6.0 on a 486-66 with 24 megs... and it's sharing a modem, a printer, a scanner, and shared disk space for Windows machines via Samba, and running anonymous FTP... and it's just fine. Granted, I don't try to run a GUI, and compiling the kernel is slow, but it runs like a champ for the aforementioned tasks.


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