What distros support 486 machines?

[Bill Horne]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derek Atkins" <warlord at MIT.EDU>
To: "Bill Horne" <bill at billhorne.homelinux.org>
Cc: <discuss at blu.org>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: What distros support 486 machines?


> Bill Horne <bill at billhorne.homelinux.org> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> 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)...  Sure, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux release does not
> support i386 or i486 (and maybe even i586, but I'm not 100% sure), but
> you're not asking about their enterprise system.