[Gllug] Good up-to-date distro for mini-ITX?

[Julian Somers]

On 17:12 Wed 21 Jun     , John Hearns wrote:
> I have a VIA C3 processor on mini-ITX which I would like to run a modern 
> desktop-oriented distro on.
> 
> I tried a network install of the latest Ubuntu (ie install using the CD 
> and retrieve the packages over the network).
> It died on me - processor type is too old for the kernel I guess.
> Anybody got good ideas?
> Fedora 5 wouldn't work for me either, but I'm not surprised as I know 
> the kernel has left that type of
> processor behind.

We have some happily running Gentoo i586. I haven't tried X, but I
imagine it would be fine.

Julian

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