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| Thread ID: 24262 | 2002-09-07 01:44:00 | suggestions for OS for 486 please | loser (538) | Press F1 |
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| 77265 | 2002-09-07 03:42:00 | You won't get a late Linux on a 200MB disk . 8MB is a *bit* small for any GUI . If you got RH4 . 2, that might fit . Slackware . . . again an earlier one, might be OK . People say that Debian can be set up with only what you want, too . All Linux will handle CDs, and modems . Sound with a card from 486 era is almost certainly OK . I've got a DX33 running Linux . It had 8 MB when I installed, but I've bumped it up a bit since . I put Slackware 2 on it, in frustration at RH7 . 3 installing so much useless (to me) stuff and overfilling the 330MB disk . I installed only what I needed . It handles a SCSI 8mm tape for my network so data handling speed is no problem . OS/2 would go OK . . . that's a nice OS . I've had it going on a 386SX20 with 4MB, and a 40MB disk . IBM say Warp 3 needs about 80MB . . . Be requires more hardware, and the demo has to have 500MB of disk . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 77266 | 2002-09-07 08:53:00 | If you wanted to use it for something useful you could put SmoothWall (http://www.smoothwall.org) on it so that you can have a dedicated hardware based firewall. | -=JM=- (16) | ||
| 77267 | 2002-09-07 14:09:00 | eeeewwwww, now that IS cool. And very geeky.... I like it. :D |
loser (538) | ||
| 77268 | 2002-09-07 21:30:00 | Here's another back to the future suggestion, plain vanilla DOS with an icon based graphical menu, and a DOS web browser. For menus try www.simtel.net qmiii31c.zip or starmu50.zip may give a windows type menu screen, but I havent tried them A DOS web browser with dial up can be downloaded from: http://home.arachne.cz This program was reviewed a few years ago by Tom Moffat in the Electronics Australia Magazine. Then there are the alternative DOS like Freedos, 4Dos etc. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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