John R Pierce <> scribbled on Tuesday, June 03, 2008 9:40 AM: > Sorin Srbu wrote: >> Something just occured to me on this this... >> >> Suppose I have an old Amd 486DX2/40, could this oldie be setup so that it >> boots a minimal (blocky) GUI over NFS to be able to run xmms or something >> like that? Has anybody tried (something similar like) this? >> > > how much ram? I don't think I'd bother if its less than about 128MB. Probably around 30ish. Don't think the 486-generation machines could handle much more than that. > fwiw, a newer distro with a i686 only kernel won't work, that requires > pentium pro or better Sounds good! I have a Ppro/180 (overclocked to 200MHz) too. What about players? Xmmx is graphical and I'm not familiar with CLI or block-graphics players others than those that were big with OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 more than a decade ago. TIA.
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