Ubuntu on a 486?

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:08:53 -0800
NoOp <glgxg at mfire.com> wrote:

> If by 486 you mean as early as PII then I can assure you that Ubuntu
> runs just fine on those machines.

As far as I know, anything later than Pentium 1 is a 686.

"uname -m" will tell you.

The oldest machine I've used with Ubuntu ( 5.10 - Breezy ) was a Pentium
200 MMX - which was a 586 ( The rather odd motherboard, small form factor
of some kind,  finally died, sadly )

Peter