[NTLUG:Discuss] 486SX Distro

Bobby Wrenn bobby at wrennest.com
Sun Jul 14 13:29:56 CDT 2002


I also would like to run on older hardware. I don't know what Paul
requires in the way of function. I would like to run ethereal on old
laptops. Kind of a LAN analyzer on the cheap.

So, it doesn't need to run a fancy gui. Just needs to run X reasonably
well.

What window manager would work?

Paul Ingendorf wrote:
> 
> I'm looking for a distro that will support a 486SX 100 with X windows on 16mb of ram.  :-)  I know the constraints make this a tough system to work with which is why I thought I would post this as a question to the group as someone is bound to have actually done this and know of a distro that will do it fairly well.
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