* Jérôme <jejebr@(protected)]:
> I dont understand.
>
> - Mandriva requirements are 256 MB of Ram : which i586 powered system have that ? The standard amount when this kind of system were on the market was 32 MB, 64 MB at best.
>
> - Even if the LiveCD/DVD can boot, it would be barely usable with Gnome/KDE/Xfce.
>
> - If I had one of these systems, I would probably choose not to waste any ressources, and so, to use a specialized distribution.

At the FISL9, a guy came to our stand and specifically asked about using
Mandriva in old K6 systems, told us memory would not be an issue, IIRC. Here
in Brazil you can find memory for these systems on sale, maybe not as cheap
as current DDR2 stuff, but if more memory is all one needs...