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A good distro for a legacy machine?
mmadia:
even though this is in the unix+gnu/linux section, might i suggest BeOS?
BeOS Max Edition v3.1b1 , which is a repackaged
BeOS R5 Personal Edition
I suggest Max over original PE, as many updated drivers and 3rd party apps are included.
web browsing: Mozilla or FFox
email: Mail Daemon Replacement 3.x (aka MDR)
cd burning: Helios
video: VLC
music: SoundPlay or CL-AMP, both of which support WinAmp style skins if that's your thing.
BeOS will *fly* on that hardware.
I've replied to two other posts w/more info. about BeOS in the
Not Quite Mainstream OSs
solemnwarning:
ive been looking for a distro that will install on this piece of shit no luck so far:
Intel 486RX2 running @ 66Mhz
524Meg Hot-Swap SCSI Drive
Floppy Drive
No cd (IDE controller cant take a cd :( )
16Meg SIMM RAM
ISA Lan Card (3Com Etherlink III ISA (3C509/3C509b)
ISA SCSI Card
Names Of SCSI Drive And Dock:
Drive: MountainGate PassPort XL
Dock: Quantum PassPort XL
SCSI: Future Domain TMC-1650/1660/1670/1680 SCSI Host Adaptor
Master of Reality:
you're all nucking futs.... go with OpenBSD :)
Master of Reality:
--- Quote from: Master of Reality ---you're all nucking futs.... go with OpenBSD :)
--- End quote ---
you sir are an ass.... use NetBSD it has a whole bunch of packages and such for it, although i never got it to work on a computer :(
Although neither of those are really linii, so if your determined for a Linux i would go with Slackware. The newest version of slack doesnt have support for i386, so you would have to find slack9.0 i think, but that shouldnt be too hard.
Aloone_Jonez:
This seems to be a sticking point for Linux.
You might be able to run slack on a 586 with 16MB. but if you're a newb and you want to experiment with Linux on an old machine or you just don't want to go buy a new one this can be a problem. Most people I know who aren't computer people (unlike most people here) have fairly old computers, most of my friends have 32 to 256MB of RAM - that's nowhere near enough for the newb bloatware distros like Mandrake and Fedora, even Windows in my experience runs at a similar (or dare I say it faster) pace than these distros.
Fortunately I discovered Vector Linux and even though there are some things I don't like about it (like lack of easy customisation) it's a good newb distro - hopefully it will improve with age without going the same way as th others.
How about BeOS?
I've heard it's very graphical, but what are the minimum requirements?
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