Pretty sure AntiX would work on this
gentoo. i'm not even gonna look this up but i'd be surprised if immolo hasn't installed in that platform yet ;)
I wonder if there's a Gentoo binpkg host for i486 specifically, since it might almost be practical then. (Or you could set up your own.)
@nichtburningturtle The Pentium II is 32-bit and possesses an MMU, so provided you have adequate memory, pretty much any 32-bit distro such as puppy linux or antix should work fine. Newer Ubuntu which is now 64-bit only will not.
I compiled a minimal custom Buildroot once for a Pentium II to do some backups with USB support. Kerbel 5.17.
@nichtburningturtle I run Arch Linux on a Pentium 2 E5300 and with some system tweaks like using Dwm/St, less than 1000 packages and args on some software it run smoothly.
Did you use an archlinux32 i486 iso?
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