Linux on floppies for old pc

[Dias de verano]

He wanted to know what my answers where so I just put it in his quote.  Patio its not the people who think in the box that affect the world.  Its the people outside of it to begin with. 

Sometimes people who think outside the box are crazy, like you, squall.

[squall_01]

Not sure I was thinking its a pentium because intel made them an used to seeing them, but it says intel 486.  socket 3, e=mc2 is that not so??

[Dias de verano]

It's an 80486, sometimes shortened to "486". pentiums came later. This computer is going to run like a stone dog.

[squall_01]

I know, so you think linux mite be too much for it?  It did have like windows 3 or something old like that.  I took it only cause its collectable an still works.

[Dead_reckon]

Yeah, I think its a shelf novelty Squall, its beyond its life span.

[squall_01]

I got two of them    Any buyers?

[patio]

I'll take one off your hands if you pay shipping...

[Zylstra]

it on a gateway 2000, 486 pent, I think the drive had 1995 on it.

That doesnt tell us much...
What kind of processor is it exactly? And how fast is it?
How much RAM does it have?

540MB sounds about right for a basic home computer during the 95' era...

[Dias de verano]

it on a gateway 2000, 486 pent, I think the drive had 1995 on it.

That doesnt tell us much...
What kind of processor is it exactly? And how fast is it?
How much RAM does it have?

540MB sounds about right for a basic home computer during the 95' era...

If it's a 486 it's going to be 100 MHz or under, and it is unlikely to have more than 4 or 8 MB of RAM.

[squall_01]

Yeah, it was a sectary finical PC or something similar of that.  I'm joking, I don't even know where you are patio.   

[Zylstra]

I dont think there are any (not even XFce) desktop Linux distributions that support a computer like your... the processor wouldent be much of a problem, but the low RAM would be a huge problem.

[Dias de verano]

*censored* Small Linux, which has been suggested already, runs on a 486 with 8Mb

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/486.html

Here's a pic of a 486 with 16 MB running DSL. 16 Mb is better, but it will run in 8. A DX processor (the kind with an FPU) is better for any kind of multimedia including looking at jpegs. An SX33 (without FPU) rendered the bbc.co.uk front page in around 15 seconds.



We don't know what speed the CPU is on squall's machine,nor whether it is a DX or SX, nor the amount of RAM.

[patio]

Is that Uncle Bob on the left there ? ?
 

[Dias de verano]

Is that Uncle Bob on the left there ? ?
 

That's my grandson.

[patio]