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My first Linux install was in 1994, on a 486DX/2-66 with 8MB of RAM. At the time it was considered standard hardware and Linux ran really well on it.
by ToddWBurgess 5y ago
My first Linux install was in 1994, on a 486DX/2-66 with 8MB of RAM. At the time it was considered standard hardware and Linux ran really well on it.
- hulitu 5y agoX was a little slow on my machine with the same config. But after i updated to 12MB RAM X with Fvwm2 was great.
- fortran77 5y agoI remember when Linux finally got "good enough" in the early 90s and I switched from SCO Xenix and SCO Unix to Linux. Many people ran Linux on 486 machines. Other than the nostalgia of seeing the old boot loaders and boot screens, there's nothing special about this "feat"
- gattilorenz 5y ago> Many people ran Linux on 486 machines. Other than the nostalgia of seeing the old boot loaders and boot screens, there's nothing special about this "feat" Many people ran Windows on 486. But it was Windows 3.x, or 95 at most. If you managed to get Windows 10 to boot on one, surely that would be a feat...
- fortran77 5y agoWindows 10 was never designed for a 486. Linux was.
- hoistbypetard 5y agoWindows NT was. That has about the same relationship to Windows 10 that the Linux kernels designed for 486 do to modern Linux.