What distros support 486 machines?

nmeyers at javalinux.net nmeyers at javalinux.net
Mon Oct 27 08:06:41 EST 2003


On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 07:52:22AM -0500, Bill Horne wrote:
> Although I'm not yet so fed up with RedHat as David, I'll take 
> this opportunity to ask about distros that support 486 machines
> in their current release.
> 
> RedHat isn't supporting 486-based machines, and since I just spent 
> $1.86 on a new bios battery, I'd like to keep my 486 going for a 
> few more decades. 
> 
> Which distros currently support 486's? Which are committed to supporting
> the 486 in the future?

Gentoo supports whatever arch you build it for - including 486.  You'll
probably want to learn about techniques that let you build on other,
faster machines and then move the binary packages over to the 486.

Nathan



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