jgutty Posted December 11, 2003 Report Share Posted December 11, 2003 ....on an old, old PC. I use MDK 9.1 on my main desktop, and I want to get my kids into the 'Linux' world. I have a couple of old PCs that they use in their rooms, one is a P133MMX with 128Mb Ram running Win '98. I loaded MDK 9.2 onto it to test drive the new version (BTW, I will stick w/ 9.1 on my machine for now). 9.2 loads and runs painfully slow on the p133....and my daughter is using an old 486 with 4Mb ram as a web-surfer. It runs Win '95 ok, but I want to get Linux on it also. I am certain that an old distro with a simple desktop manager would run better than '95. I have a boxed set of MDK 8.2 CDs, would it be OK on the P133? Any ideas on what the 486 would need for an acceptable performance? (I am not cheap, I just can't see throwing out a couple of PCs that work well. I intend to use the 486 as a print server or something eventually) Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted December 11, 2003 Report Share Posted December 11, 2003 (edited) Try vector linux. It's specifically made for old hardware but it needs at least 16MB of ram. I don't think you'll get any linux gui to work with just 4MB of ram. Here's a link: http://www.vectorlinux.com/ Edited December 11, 2003 by pmpatrick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JaseP Posted December 11, 2003 Report Share Posted December 11, 2003 (edited) Try here for older distros (like RedHat 7.3): http://www.linuxiso.org/ You can download complete ISOs from the links they provide. Just about all the major flavors are covered. Most of the ISOs are most recent though, but RedHat 7.3 should work on a box like that. RedHat RPMs are i386 binaries for max compatibility. Edited December 11, 2003 by JaseP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted December 11, 2003 Report Share Posted December 11, 2003 I'd use Debian myself, but that's just me... Other distros I'd recommend are Peanut or Slackware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted December 11, 2003 Report Share Posted December 11, 2003 Use the 8.2. It should work fine/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzylizard Posted December 12, 2003 Report Share Posted December 12, 2003 If you get anything to run on the 486, let us know what you are running and how you did it. I am very skeptical that you will get anything to run with a gui on that machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiedra Posted December 12, 2003 Report Share Posted December 12, 2003 Peanut Linux is meant to be really good with this kind of set up and user friendly. Supposedly, any version of Redhat will do since it's archetictured for i386 processors, but with a light gui such as fluxbox. Or Mandrake 7.2 or 7.0 which is archetictured for i486 processors. I don't think anything above that you'll be able to install if you go with Mandrake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgutty Posted December 12, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2003 Thanks!. I'll have some time over the holidays, I'll let you know how it went Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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