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Geek Culture / Linux Distro

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Newbie Brogo
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Posted: 25th Sep 2004 06:40
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For teh linux people read this, My friend has dial up, , So I must post for him, becuase he is extremly impatient.

He wants to know of any linux distros that would work with his Intel 486, with a hard drive that supports... *drum roll*



1.5gb

Processer....... 200mhz Intel 486
RAM............. 16mb
Video Card...... He doesn't know.... Not that the video card would matter much....

He wants a graphical interface by the way.
Oh... and he told me to tell you he has Windows 95 for some reason... on the 486....

Any distros?

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bitJericho
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Posted: 25th Sep 2004 06:43
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if your friend is impatient, he's in for a treat when he goes to learn linux

Tell him to look for one himself

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=linux+distro

PHLAK is probably his best bet...
http://www.phlak.org/

small and fast


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Zero Blitzt
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Posted: 25th Sep 2004 06:45
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Hmm... Possibly an older version of Debian or Mandrake?

Or if he wants to boot off a CD, try MEPIS or Knoppix. If you want a very small distro that is still packed with features, try DamnSmallLinux or Peanut Linux.


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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 25th Sep 2004 06:46 Edited at: 25th Sep 2004 06:46
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Almost all of them will.

DamnSmallLinux however is one of my favourite Distro's right now because the programmers of it are on hand to talk to, sort out problems and updates.

On the point of Linux though, Jerico did you receive that Novell package quickly?
I ordered it and the site had 'your product should arrive within 2 weeks', but it's been like a month now and still no package!


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bitJericho
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Posted: 25th Sep 2004 06:48 Edited at: 25th Sep 2004 06:48
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I got it a couple weeks ago..

haven't been able to use it, however, because it requires a dvd drive, which only my laptop has. Which, coincidentally works crap with linux because of a screwed up aspi table...and because, it's a laptop with pretty much 0 bios configurability.


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Rob K
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Posted: 25th Sep 2004 06:50
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Virtually any distro will run fine on that system, as long as you make sure that any unnecessary packages are not installed.

Ie when running the installer, install the Linux Kernel, the basic services and the minimum essentials for X and KDE. When you get the sys. up and running you can install extras as you wish.

It is possible to run Linux with a graphical UI (not KDE though) on a 33Mhz / 8MB RAM Psion 5 palmtop. Its very scalable as system.


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the_winch
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Posted: 25th Sep 2004 07:01
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Old version of slackware?

Not sure I would bother with a gui on hardware that old and slow.

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GothOtaku
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Posted: 25th Sep 2004 07:59
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I'd recommend an old version of RedHat (we use 7.3 it on our old servers at work) or Minix (not Linux, I know...) but you can find it for free online and is practically guaranteed to work on old Intel machines. Only downside is that I don't think you can do GUI's well on it and it doesn't support newer stuff. Anyways, here's the link for Minix if you're interested: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html. Finding old versions of RedHat can be done but is sometimes hard, 7.3 and above are recommended. Also, Slackware is good with minimal hardware but requires a bit more tweaking sometimes (which if he doesn't know Linux will be a pain). Also, DamnSmallLinux and Knoppix should also work well.
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Neofish
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DamnSmallLinux rules, i have it on a really old laptop

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Ilya
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Quote: "he is extremly impatient"

Then he should get a new computer and internet connection.

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Posted: 25th Sep 2004 15:22
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Newbie Brogo
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Posted: 25th Sep 2004 15:55
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I tell him he should get internet, and a new computer everytime I see him, but his parent say different.

I think he's goin with DSL (Damn Small Linux) or maybe even slackware.
He's leaning farther toward DSL for space conversation.

Thanks for the suggestions.

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Neofish
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im not sure that DSL can take 56K fine (im sure it will) but i know it works with ADSL

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A 486 and only 1.5GB of HDD space to play with? You don't want to be installing any of the "heavy weight" desktop environments; I wouldn't bother with Gnome or KDE. I reckon your best bet might be XFCE. I think it's the lightest/fastest environment you could get whilst still being featureful.


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a few super small linux distros are at bootdisk.com (like 2 floppies wiht x-windows) um besides that i know it said in a book tha linux 7 will run on as low as 4mb of ram and can even be put onto one floppy i hav enever tested this my self and am not for sure if they meant with a gui

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