[plug] Free CD linux - any good ?

[Mike]

At 07:05 PM 3/4/2001 +0800, Leon Brooks <leon at brooks.fdns.net> wrote:
>No, plain Mandrake won't work on a '486. There are '486 CD images, 
>however, and if you install on a 486 or better and recompile the kernel 
>to include FP emulation, these will even run OK on a '386, not that 
>you'd want to run very much on a '386 these days.

Are you suggesting the 486's didn't have embedded FPU ?

If not then why suggest FP emulation would have to be turned on ?

>> Mandrake is one of those distros
>> that have decided to specifically say "stuff the low end" and go all out
>> with a distro aimed at higher end PCs. And I must say they do it very well.
>
>...without actually leaving out the low end, although you do have to 
>fetch the source RPMs for security updates and make binaries out of them 
>(rpm -bb specfile and wait a lo-o-o-ng time on a '386) before 
>installing, instead of just fetching the binaries.

Well given I'd be running on a 486 with 133 or 160Meg, then I wouldn't
have to go that route...

Rdgs

mike