On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:00:22 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: [...] > I want a distribution with security support since if I didn't want that > I could just stick with Woody. > > DamnSmallLinux needs to boot from a CD.
there are bootfloppies for DSL > The 486 will only boot from > floppy or hard drive. > > FreeBSD will run, does anyone have experience with it? I have a Pentium I 133MHz 32MB RAM Laptop. I did not try to install FreeBSD on it but NetBSD: it was much faster than Debian Sarge (needs only 8MB if a "tiny" kernel is used). Eventually I installed Debian Potato in order to keep an acceptable speed (NetBSD did not properly recognize an old external PCMCIA 2x CD-ROM reader, nor the sound card). If your hardware is recognized, NetBSD (stable = 3.1) is probably the less resource consuming OS I've tried so far. > Thanks, > > Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
