[ILUG] what do u think?

[Kenn Humborg]

> oh by the way, the other machine is an old 486,4mb ram 
> and 125mb HD, its not great i know! but it should be ok 
> to let me play around with linux???

You will need more RAM while installing.  These new-fangled
modern distributions' installers are a bit more RAM-hungry
than the old Slackware days.  RH4.x and later definitely 
need more than 4MB (speaking from experience).

If you are beginning with Linux, I wouldn't recommend
such a small machine.  It _can_ run it, but installation
will be very tricky due to RAM and disk limitations.

It'll also be slow as hell for "real" work (like compiling
kernels - I'd guesstimate about 12 hours).

And don't even think about running X Window on it.
That size of machine is best for low-power applications
like routing, firewalling, small DNS server.

Later,
Kenn