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It’s a 486, you will probably be able to run a lightweight Linux distro but it will be sloooooow.
by jtwaleson 4y ago
It’s a 486, you will probably be able to run a lightweight Linux distro but it will be sloooooow.
- doublepg23 4y agoI don’t think most distros compile for i486, minimum is i686 (not too familiar with the jargon though, before my time). Even the kernel itself was going to trash i486 support entirely. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-i486-Linux-Possible-Drop https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-i486-Linux-Possible-Drop
- guessbest 4y agoThey'll have to run it with a 2.2 era kernel. Everything after that ran dog slow on these machines.