[Scottish] Small distros

scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk
Fri Aug 23 17:13:00 2002


beley wrote:
> Can anyone recommend any small, novice friendly distros for use on 
some 486s
> / early pentiums? I've got some free time and some machines itching to 
be
> tinkered with :-) I plan to network them as well, and generally have a 
good
> ol' footer.

I have a RH5.2 (free) CD which I use to setup 486 boxes for 
routers/printservers/... You can still download the distro. Obviously 
you wouldn't want to run this on an internet facing machine. Or I think 
I have some other older distro's which haven't yet been recycled as 
coasters yet.
 
> Do any places sell such distros on CDs, as i'm only on a 56K 
connection and
> can't download anything too big.

I can burn a copy for Thursday if you'd like.

Colin