Which linux is best for a 486 with 32MB of ram?

[KennyH]

Title says it all. Please help me out guys. I need the leanest and fastest running distro. If you have any suggestions please post. Thanks again.

 

[jhu]

try netbsd because the full install is approximately 70mb and it's less if you don't install everything. i've found with recent linux distributions it's a pain in the ass to try and unselect everything that you don't want, but it still ends up being pretty bloated.

 

[KennyH]

Thanks.

 

[BOFH]

Debian is a good mimimal distro. I currently have a 70MB debian install of a 486 to act as a dialup router

 

[KennyH]

How hard is debian to configure? Thanks

 

[BOFH]

I find it mostly easy. There are occasionally a few odd things that I drop into irc to get a answer for, but its all well documented.

 

[Kowman007]

Elfstone linux has a small version and its the most unix based linux its very secure while maintaining its size as small. But there is a catch the D/l version needs to be burned with linux burning software