Comments on: Old Machine? Try antiX Linux

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:18:42 +0000

Well OK then, I’ll give it a shot. Downloading the ISO now and hopefully will have some time over the holidays to play around.

Thanks!

By: cotton

cotton — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:34:29 +0000

Arch will work fine on Pentium 2 & 3 machines – they’re i686 compatible (but Pentiums are not).

See the discussion at http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=49875

Once you try Arch, you’ll never look for another distro!

Have fun.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:18:35 +0000

@Jonathan – OK, you’re the second person to suggest that I look at at Arch Linux. However, when I go there I see this on the front page:

Currently we have official packages optimized for the i686 and x86-64 architectures.

That won’t go to far with my old pentium 2 and 3 machines! Am I missing something or looking in the wrong spot?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:09:29 +0000

I also like Arch linux for this application (specifically crafted for x86 architecture), but it's up there with Gentoo in difficulty to install.

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