Best Distro for OLD OLD i486

johnp · 05-21-2004, 03:27 PM

Hey I have an computer from early 93 and am wanting to run a version of apache 1.3 on it.

Its something along the lines of:
i486 32 mhz
8 meg ram
200-400 meg hard drive

I am pretty found of the latest slack and am running that on a old 233 dell. Maybe I should try Version 7 or so of it?

Linux.tar.gz · 05-21-2004, 06:06 PM

9.1 works fine on 486.

darthtux · 05-21-2004, 06:25 PM

I've run an old 486 with 16MB of RAM. You definetly won't be able to run GNOME or KDE. Maybe something light like fluxbox might wok but the only graphical web brower that might work is dillo.

If you just want to run Apache you won't need the GUI. I don't know if the 9.1 installation routine has a minimum RAM requirement (some distros do). If it won't install, go back to 7.1 or try Debian Woody or an old version of Red Hat.

Old versions can be found at
http://www.linuxiso.org

johnp · 05-21-2004, 07:13 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by darthtux
If you just want to run Apache you won't need the GUI. I don't know if the 9.1 installation routine has a minimum RAM requirement (some distros do). If it won't install, go back to 7.1 or try Debian Woody or an old version of Red Hat.

Old versions can be found at
http://www.linuxiso.org

Ya, No GUI for sure. It for sure wouldn't be any quicker and it just eats resourcse. And I've gotten pretty handy at installing Apache by command

J.W. · 05-22-2004, 01:08 AM

Before I sent it to the recycler, I installed Slack 8.1 on my old-school 1996 Pentium 133, with a screaming 64Mg of RAM and a 1.6G drive. As others have said it can't cope with a fancy GUI but you should be able to install it and run it. -- J.W.