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I ran Linux on a 486 DX for quite some time including providing shells to people on IRC. Don't run X and it's more than powerful enough.
by rasengan 5y ago
I ran Linux on a 486 DX for quite some time including providing shells to people on IRC. Don't run X and it's more than powerful enough.
- anthk 5y agoWith SVGALib and now framebuffer you can run image and PDF viewers. Videos, well, maybe from a Pentium and up with MPEG movies.
- vidarh 5y agoA 486 can handle X just fine. 486's were our main X11 desktop machines at the office in the mid 90's (it has been the year of Linux on the desktop for me since 1995). The challenge is more that most modern X clients won't play well with a slow, memory constrained machine.
- anthk 5y agoDamn Small Linux ran fine under a 486. I liked the black fluxbox theme.
- sobkas 5y ago> A 486 can handle X just fine. 486's were our main X11 desktop machines at the office in the mid 90's (it has been the year of Linux on the desktop for me since 1995). The challenge is more that most modern X clients won't play well with a slow, memory constrained machine. I remember when X switched from monolithic server to modular one. I had to buy new GPU because S3 I had wasn't supported. I have bought ATI.