Jorpho wrote:Depends on what you mean by "complete".
Puppy Linux and Vector Linux might be worth a try.
yawetaG wrote:In general, the BSD's have great support for older hardware, better than Linux. FreeBSD is probably the most user-friendly, and Live CD versions are available, although if you really want to install it going with one of the latest versions probably is best.
Not Linux, but close.
appiah4 wrote:yawetaG wrote:In general, the BSD's have great support for older hardware, better than Linux. FreeBSD is probably the most user-friendly, and Live CD versions are available, although if you really want to install it going with one of the latest versions probably is best.
Not Linux, but close.
Never used BSD before, I wouldn't know which distributions to look into at all.. I'll check Distrowatch for BSD distributions for older hardware.
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Azarien wrote:Gentoo is a distro that you basically compile yourself from scratch, so theoretically it should be possible to configure it and compile for 586, 486 or perhaps even 386.
But personally I'd also suggest FreeBSD.
I would think that would be completely inevitable considering what you are trying to do. But then, I've never tried FreeBSD.appiah4 wrote:However, it was terribly clunky
appiah4 wrote:Never used BSD before, I wouldn't know which distributions to look into at all.. I'll check Distrowatch for BSD distributions for older hardware.
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