What distros support 486 machines?

[bill at billhorne.homelinux.org (Bill Horne)]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 12:11:53PM -0500, josephc at etards.net wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Johannes Ullrich wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > Eh?  Which "current release" from Red Hat does not support i486?  RH9
> > > certainly has 486 support (it's called "i386", but the i486 will run
> > > i386 binaries)... 
> > 
> > Las time I attempted to install RH (I think it was 7.3) on a 486 it
> > barfed. I think it needs more memory then typically used by 486 systems.
> > Don't remember the exact amount required.
>  
> Any distro with i386 support will install on a 386 or newer, that includes
> the latest version of RH. Your only hangup is memory, you should have
> atleast 8MB, 32 if at all possible.
> 
> That doesn't mean all other programs will run on that machine, and forget
> about a GUI.
> 
> -joe

Joe,

Thanks for the info. Please tell me what components I can use
with RH9 on a 486: I'm running a small firewall, with Samba,
Apache, Mailman, and iptables. There's no GUI.

Bill