What will run on a 486?

[Moyerman]

Hello, I've got my hands on some freebie 486
DX machines, 16 meg. RAM 200-300 meg. hard drives. They run Winn 3.1 with Microsoft Office fine. I would like to do a clean install with Linux. Are there any distrubitions out there that will work? I would like a GUI with some word processing
and spreadsheets. Everything I'm seeing for
Linux is huge!I downloaded Staroffice and
beleive it's too large. Do I have to compile
my own kernel just for this machine to shrink the code? :confused: :confused:

[FoBoT]

this topic will do better elsewhere, hmmm...
how about "general"

that will be hard, when you said GUI
you could do CLI install, like base debian, then just add a few apps, and not run out of disk space

maybe somebody knows a "GUI" like word processor/spreadsheet that doesn't use X windows ??

[ 13 June 2001: Message edited by: FoBoT ]