The current version of antiX Linux (M8.5) offers a 486 version and 686 version. From Google searches, I see that 686 refers to Pentium II and newer processors.
What's the point of the 486 version of antiX Linux? Why would anyone use anything but one of the 686 versions of antiX Linux? Computers with the 486 processor are from the early 1990s, and I can't imagine how a computer this old can run even TinyCore Linux, much less antiX Linux. Any computer that can run antiX Linux couldn't have been made earlier than about 1998, and that means at least a Pentium II (686) processor.
topic title: The 486 versions of antiX Linux
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jhsuPosts: 75
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drgdrgPosts: 162
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The antix-486 versions work on Pentium processors, not to my knowledge on the 486 processor.
The naming is perhaps confusing, but a web search on the topics might help. Something about, I think, Intel not being able to patent"586", and settled for pentium, based on a nice and ancient greek word for five. Pentium"One"'s as we tend to call them now, go back a bit earlier than 1998.
For the record, I actually use the P1's I've been testing, as well as more souped up machines.
The naming is perhaps confusing, but a web search on the topics might help. Something about, I think, Intel not being able to patent"586", and settled for pentium, based on a nice and ancient greek word for five. Pentium"One"'s as we tend to call them now, go back a bit earlier than 1998.
For the record, I actually use the P1's I've been testing, as well as more souped up machines.