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["Josep L. Guallar-Esteve" <jlguallar AT maduixa.net>]

A Dimarts 30 Abril 2002 05:17 pm, vàreu escriure:
> Linux gurus,

Where? :)

> Is it still true that I can run Linux (e.g. latest
> Mandrake or Red Hat) on an old 486 machine, say with
> 64 MB RAM?  I know this was the case not too long ago.

> Here are the requirements for Mandrake 8.2 listed on
> BestBuy.com:

> Minimum PC System Requirements:
> Processor Type: Intel® Pentium® processor, AMD Athlon™
> processor
> Operating System: Linux
> System Memory: 32MB RAM
> Hard Drive Space: 500MB
> Video: VESA 2.0-compatible graphics card
> Drive Type and Speed: CD-ROM

> So my old 486 processor won't cut it?!  Anyone tested
> this?

You can do it with Red Hat. You cannot do it with Mandrake 7.1 or better 
. There ws a Mandrake 7.02 for i486. Maybe it is stillavailable 
somewhere on the web.

You can run Red Hat because it is optimized for i386 or better CPUs. 
Mandrake is optimized for i586 (Pentium) or better CPUs.

You also have SuSE, Debian, Slackware and possibly Lycoris, Lindows and 
others.

Do not expect to run KDE 3.0 + OpenOffice with a i486 + 64MB at full 
speed. You can run IceWM or BalckBox or WindowsMaker or AfterStep... or 
just with no GUI and use it as a Server box.

If you have a bigger machine, you can use XDMCP and remote-GUI-login to 
the bigger machine: exactly, graphical terminal server. Nice and easy. 
All the applications run on the server and then, your 486 can use "big 
boys" applications.


> david



Salut,
Josep
-- 
Josep Lluis Guallar-Esteve