in reply to (Very OT): Good Linux distro for very old machines

Why can't you install Red Hat Linux? I mean, you probably won't be able to fit a modern Fedora or RHEL build and be satisfied, but RHL7.2 should be quite useful for a limited-use machine with reasonable userland capability.

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Re: Re: (Very OT): Good Linux distro for very old machines
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on May 26, 2004 at 17:19 UTC
    The installer from my copy of 7.1 won't start without 128M of RAM and a 400MHz machine. Go figure. :-/

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      And people over at RH sit at their desks pondering the question "Why do they hate us?". Those specs are absolutely insane. Linux doesn't require all that power...

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        The graphical installer requires those specs. The X server and anaconda (written in Python) need the RAM and CPU. It probably would work okay in 64 MB of RAM since the requirements are generous.

        The text installer can run fine 64 MB and 233 MHz.

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      You might want to try the text installer. According to the RedHat website, version 7.1 can run on a 386. Here's the link.
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      The installer from my copy of 7.1 won't start without 128M of RAM and a 400MHz machine. Go figure. :-/
      I installed RedHat 8.0 on my computer (233MHz, 64M RAM) without any problems.
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