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by **LiNew837** » Wed 19 May, 2004 3:19 pm

Greetings,
I'm an embedded systems developer, and a Linux newbie. I have a crusty old Dell (XPS P100c) that I want to use to get my feet wet with Linux and FreeBSD. I want a couple different distributions to play with (Mandrake, SuSE, Redhat) but it seems that Mandrake is only good for newer hardware. Is there such a thing as an i386 Mandrake distro?
Jeff

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by **Antony** » Wed 19 May, 2004 6:19 pm

LiNew837 wrote:Is there such a thing as an i386 Mandrake distro?

Hello Jeff,
Welcome to SillyDog701.

Yes, there's Mandrake Linux for i386 platform, although they call it i686.

Many people said Redhat (or Fedora) has better support for hardward and such such... There's no harm to try a few different variations.

And FreeBSD is not Linux, don't forget.

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by **LiNew837** » Wed 19 May, 2004 6:35 pm

Thanks, I'll look for Mandrake i686 and give it a shot.

And yes, I understand FreeBSD is a different animal. Thanks for the nudge anyway, I'm an admitted newbie after all. I'm potentially getting involved with a project initially developed on FreeBSD, but will probably end up being moved to a Linux based environment.

Jeff

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by **Edward** » Thu 20 May, 2004 5:17 pm

I've been using SuSE Linux for the past 11 months, and found that on a home-built Intel Pentium/MMX at 166 MHz, SuSE runs perfectly on it.

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by **pedrohqb** » Fri 21 May, 2004 3:49 pm

if you want for this type of old PCs use Slackware Linux

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by **DJGM** » Fri 21 May, 2004 4:14 pm

Slackware is good for older PC's, but I definitely would not recommend it for Linux newbies.

If you're new to Linux, you should go with one of the popular distros like SUSE or Mandrake.

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by **Mandrake** » Fri 21 May, 2004 7:05 pm

I wouldn't run a modern Linux distro with KDE 3.x on anything less than a 300mhz Pentium 2 and 256mb of memory. A modern Linux distro (w/ KDE), IMO, needs roughly the same hardware Windows XP does to run smoothly.

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by **Don_HH2K** » Sat 22 May, 2004 3:27 pm

Does anyone have a reccomendation for a distribution of linux that will run on a 133MHz pentium machine and is built on kernel 2.2.14 or higher?

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by **Edward** » Sat 22 May, 2004 4:20 pm

I am presently installing SuSE Linux 9.1 Personal on a system with an Intel Pentium/MMX 166 MHz CPU and 229 Mb of RAM. :tux:

Because the CPU is slow compared to today's systems, it is taking a little longer to install, but so far, it is progressing quite well.

SuSE 9.1 includes the 2.6 kernel.

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by **Don_HH2K** » Sat 22 May, 2004 9:48 pm

In that case, do you think that I could use Mandrake Linux 8.2 on a machine with a 133MHz processor and 80MB of RAM, which uses the 2.4 kernel? Install time doesn't matter, I can let that run overnight, I mean how will it perform with daily usage?

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by **Mandrake** » Sun 23 May, 2004 1:16 am

Install one of the latest versions of Linux, with the 2.6 kernel. Just don't install KDE or Gnome, download and install an old version of KDE/Gnome or a lighter 'shell'.

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by **Edward** » Sat 05 Jun, 2004 11:34 am

Mandrake wrote:I wouldn't run a modern Linux distro with KDE 3.x on anything less than a 300mhz Pentium 2 and 256mb of memory. A modern Linux distro (w/ KDE), IMO, needs roughly the same hardware Windows XP does to run smoothly.

SuSE 9.1 is still running perfectly on the Pentium box. I cannot use Mozilla on it because of a margin-related bug (150416), but Opera runs perfectly, as does KDE.

Yes it's slow (166 MHz), but it works, and that's what counts. 8-)

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by **Edward** » Sat 05 Jun, 2004 11:36 am

dluchini30 wrote:Does anyone have a reccomendation for a distribution of linux that will run on a 133MHz pentium machine and is built on kernel 2.2.14 or higher?

You might want to try SuSE 9.0 if it is still available, it has the 2.4.x kernel and was fast on my Pentium box (as was 8.2). But be informed, that on a 133 MHz Pentium, it may take a few hours for the installation and subsequent Online Update to complete. Installing 9.1 on my Pentium including updates, took close to 4 hours.

9.1 (presumably because of the 2.6 kernel) runs somewhat slower on the Pentium.

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