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- From: tgt@ecn.purdue.edu (Thomas G Tobin)
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- Subject: Re: Unix on a 486 PC
- Keywords: unix 486 pc
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.195144.20443@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 19:51:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul28.080203.3611@nevada.edu>, otto@nevada.edu (Frederick J. Haab) writes:
- |> In article <99QD02ui1bij01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> nyp00@cd.amdahl.com (Nicholas Y. Pang) writes:
- |> >What are some of the flavors of UNIX available for running on a 486 PC?
- |> >Which are your favorites? How much does it cost?
- |> >Any minimal hardware requirements?
- |> >
- |> >Any info appreciated :-)
- |> >
- |> >--
- |> >Nicholas Pang nyp00@cd.amdahl.com
- |> >Amdahl Corporation nyp00@outs.ccc.amdahl.com
- |>
- |>
- |> I just installed linux on my 386, with a 60MB dos partition
- |> and a 60MB linux partition. Only had it about a week, and
- |> have some problems because I don't know what I'm doing, but
- |> it's free, you can get it at several sites...try
- |> doing:
- |> archie -s linux
- |> anyway, I think you can get it at banjo.concert.net in
- |> the pub/Linux directory.
- |>
- |> BTW, it's free (but copyrighted, I believe), not shareware
- |> or anything. Good luck.
- |>
- |> -Fred
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- Try 386BSD, V0.1, which has just been released last week. This is REAL
- (BSD) UNIX, it's free, and it looks to be very stable. Takes up more
- space than linux (I have my harddisk partitioned for DOS and an 80M UNIX
- section...the 386BSD binaries take up about 30-35M). See comp.unix.bsd for
- more info.
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