I was poking around looking for distros to run on older hardware, and
found something new on the DamSmallLinux page (okay, October 2003, fairly
new):

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/486.html

A couple of guys had a computer party and dragged several 486s out of
their closets.  They tried DamSmallLinux on older and older systems.  The
486SX33 with 16MB of RAM still allowed GUI web surfing, Email, and even
GIMP editing (as a remote station over a broadband link).  Naturally, the
lack of a FPU prevented some of the DamSmallLinux applications from
working, but you can probably find a 486SX FPU chip for the cost of
postage, or just use a 486DX.

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