Could an Intel 486 wake up with FC3

[Paul]

On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 05:20 -0800, Michael 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
> 
> You'd probably have better luck with a more minimalist distro as a 
> machine of that kind isn't going to have the resources required to run 
> most of the stuff that comes with Fedora. I'm not every sure if Fedora 
> comes with i386 packages still. (Anyone know? I don't feel like checking.)

Well last time I checked there were not any "mainstream" distros that
did (at least for 486SX) so I put FreeBSD 4.8 on my laptop to when I
wanted to play with a "unix like" operating system on it.

It worked but was slow on my 486SX-33 with 24MB RAM.  The last distro I
had installed on it was Debian 2.2.

Regards,
Paul