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bear
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Puckdropper
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Sorta? I have it on an old iBook. I think the MintPPC distro is no longer developed, though. |
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bear
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Using Mint 17.3 Rosa Cinnamon 2.8.8 on one and Xfce on one. Thinking of finding something for my IBM 486 DX-100. I got a Canon LBP2900 USB working on Mint  and over network even from an Ipad |
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bear
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Tue Feb 26, 2019 3:04 pm |
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My mother 86 had a lot of trouble with windows so I put Linux Mint on her machine instead and she ha no probs |
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T-R-A
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
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Location: Western NC
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Fri Mar 01, 2019 1:45 am |
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| Thinking of finding something for my IBM 486 DX-100. |
Stick with Puppy or DSL. Newer distros have to be heavily modified to work with hardware that old (and most GUI's really drag them down)
FWIW, I've got Mint on a machine but haven't really used it since I installed it.... |
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bear
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T-R-A
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Fri Mar 01, 2019 6:54 pm |
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Hope you don't expect a GUI with those....
I'd strongly recommend you stick with puppy if you're wanting an environment similar to Windows. |
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bear
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Sat Mar 02, 2019 6:47 am |
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But isn't ubuntu behind in puppy ? and their kernel does not support 486 no more ?
Well with older kernel it will
https://puppylinux.org/.../Long-Term-Supported%20Puppy.htm
The kernel version of the standard release is 3.9.11 (PAE, i686) while an older kernel 3.2.48 (i486, no PAE ) is used with the retro release.
Otherwise I am learning more of the terminal side of linux so the GUI does not have to be that grand. |
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