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- From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
- Subject: Re: Unix on a 486 PC
- Keywords: unix 486 pc
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.171958.16676@pool.info.sunyit.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 17:19:58 GMT
- References: <99QD02ui1bij01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <1992Jul28.080203.3611@nevada.edu>
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- Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
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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
-
- Instead of recommending archie, I recommend checking out the "official"
- ftp sites for linux in the states, which are banjo.concert.net and
- tsx-11.mit.edu. I also recommend checking out comp.os.linux for more
- information on this free Unix-like operating system.
-
-
- --
- Jim H.
- *
- * James L. Henrickson ujlh@sunyit.edu
- * "Yet another Jim in the Linux world." :-)
-