Linux on older machines

Michael O'Donnell mod at std.com
Mon Jan 4 21:32:56 EST 1999



>Red Hat's installation is graphics based.  I would guess that Debian
>would be better to install on a smaller system.

Not quite sure what you mean by "graphics based" but I just
installed RH5.2 on a skanky old 486 box and it worked fine.
I had 16Mb RAM, though - that could have made the difference...

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