Could an Intel 486 wake up with FC3

[Kumara]

Thank you very much for your reply
Mohan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Saltzman" <mjs at ces.clemson.edu>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: Could an Intel 486 wake up with FC3


> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Steven Pasternak wrote:
>
> > On Sunday 30 January 2005 03:23, Kumara wrote:
> >> Could somebody advice me if it is a good idea to do so.
> >> I have an Intel 486 DX4-S mechine with 504MBs of HDD
> >> and 16MB's of RAM. it is hardly running windows 98 and Internet. (very
slow
> >> and with a lot of crashes and stucks). could someone advice me to put
FC1
> >> on it and test???
> >> May I try it? hope your advice from the list. I want to enjoy the power
of
> >> Linux in different ways ThX in advance
> >> Mohan
> > It might. It CAN'T run i586 or i686 rpms though. I would advice older
> > software, like RH6.2 (it is painful, but does at least have the kde and
gnome
> > desktop). Most kernel 2.6.x based distros only build the kernel for
i586+ and
> > that most kernel <2.6 build for i386+. Besides, old software is for old
> > hardware and is better for low RAM and low HD space. My old i486 still
runs
> > Win95! The 'power of linux' that was written for this old thing is
kernel
> > ~1.x-2.0!
>
> I have a 486 laptop running RH7.3 as a firewall.  It's quite happy running
> kernel-2.4.20-37.7.legacy, iptables, no X.  That version of GNOME was the
> last "lightweight" one, though.  If you need X on your hardware, XFCE is
> the way to go.  There are other distros that are designed for older/slower
> hardware too, but I couldn't refer you to one at this point.
>
> See also www.rule-project.org.  They have low-memory installers for RH8
> and RH9.  They are supposed to be working on an FC-based version, but I
> haven't seen much progress recently.
>
> You can't install FC on anything less than an i586 now without rebuilding
> pieces of it (no i386 kernel, for example), and it looks like FC4 will
> abandon even that.
>
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