Which Linux to use
Rod Haper
rhaper at houston.rr.com
Sat May 15 17:55:25 UTC 2004
Srinivasan S wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an old 486 PC with Windoze 95 ..
> rather than throw it away I want to install Linux and give it to my daughter for education ...
>
> Can I install Fedora ? What is the best linux to install on a 486 PC/540 MB Hard disk/32 MB RAM ?
>
> All help is appreciated
>
> Regards
> Srini
You can get DSL (Damn Small Linux) to run on your hardware. Here's a
link to an account of it running on similar hardware:
<http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/486.html>
The problem is that your daughter (and you) will have to deal with a
pretty Spartan user environment. You could also try other liveCD based
distros (<http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php>) but I doubt you
will be able to find anything much better than DSL given your hardware
constraints.
---
Rod
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