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jtwaleson
on March 11, 2023
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Repairing a tiny ribbon cable inside a 28 year old...
It’s a 486, you will probably be able to run a lightweight Linux distro but it will be sloooooow.
doublepg23
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I don’t think most distros compile for i486, minimum is i686 (not too familiar with the jargon though, before my time). Even the kernel itself was going to trash i486 support entirely.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-i486-Linux-Possible-Drop
guessbest
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They'll have to run it with a 2.2 era kernel. Everything after that ran dog slow on these machines.
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