ninja_looter, I hope you don't believe in yourself... Mandrake is redhat, but with more trash included, both Redhat and Mandrake are commercial, and if it werent for the GPL, they would sell it just like Microsoft sells its stupid Windows, Redhat/Mandrake are not Linux anymore. I run a server-cluster here with 24 old 386 Compaq laptops (don't recall the name, they were on cheap sale, 5$ each) and I run Dettu[Xx] on them, of course, one could use a minimalistic distribution such as an old Slackware, without X of course. Running Redhat, Mandrake, Debian or any other big distribution would be just plain stupid, almost comparable to running Windows XP on Warthog's computer. As for the performance, a 100mhz 486 is well enough, Linux was originally developed on a 386, of course, you would not be able to run more than about two zones, and not more than a couple of players, but that's good enough for a small home network.
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