Intel 486 ubuntu?

**bzachd** · September 11th, 2008

I have an older 486 machine just sitting around and I thought I would try to put Ubuntu Server on it. Can anyone suggest a good version for an older machine. 1/2G Ram, general Dell hardware, nothing special. Just looking for a machine to test on, build and rebuild, not looking for anything to support, just my personal test machine.

Thanks guys for any advice.

**ronnielsen1** · September 11th, 2008

Ubuntu - no
DSL - Yes as long as 16 MB of memory or better
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/486.html

**ronnielsen1** · September 11th, 2008

**bzachd** · September 12th, 2008

ronnielsen1,

Thanks... I might just buy something used with a little more power...for Ubuntu and then just give DSL a try on my other.

Zach

**bzachd** · September 21st, 2008

If anyone is curious on this, I ended up putting Slackware 10.2 on my old 486 with 1/2G Ram and it runs like a champ. Just thought if anyone was looking for something similar, this might help.

Good luck,

Zach

**ronnielsen1** · September 21st, 2008

How functional can you get it with slack? Plenty of packages?

**lswb** · September 21st, 2008

486 ? 1/G ram as in 512MB?

Please tell, what make and model of 486 is that? In the days when 486 motherboards were made, 16 or 64MB memory was commonly the maximum supported.