There is no reason why you would need this. Fedora can run on old hardware now. i486 is just too old. Because hardware is so cheap now a day I don't believe anyone is going to want o waste their time with old hardware. While Linux techincally can run on it (you will need to recompile the FC kernel for i486, currently the default kernel has P5 optimizations, so it will boot), most will tell you take $100 and get a machine that is 1000x better. No reason to squander on the past that is just sooooo slow and so many problems (can you say IRQ conflicts, DMA settings .... oh soo many painful nights) , compared to the cheap hardware of today. The biggest problem is device drivers for older hardware. It's either works great now, or not there, or unmaintained and not no a good state. If your hadware falls in the latter two, then you need to hit LKML and start writting some device drivers. Having to deal with hardware pre Plug&Play is a headache no one whoould ever want to deal with again. Now don't get me wrong, a lot that our old stuff is going to poorer countries. Where they are using it as new. Fedora Core 3 runs on anything Pentium class and up now. I can tell you though that running KDE or Gnome on a Pentium 200 with 128mb Ram is pure torture (never had a chance to try Xfce though, I threw those boxes out). Only thing they are good for now for basic server side services stuff (apache , samba, etc) nowaday. On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 18:18:11 +0100, Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@xxxxxx> wrote: > Although I don't have an i486 anymore I'm interested in getting FC3 to > run ok on older hardware, if there are more of us maybe we can spin of > an fc3 on old hw project? > > This is not meant to be a fork, but to generate ideas / patches for fcX > proper which will enable it to run on older HW. > > Regards, > > Hans > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list >
