From: Tony Ingenoso 

Got a better shot with Debian than anything else on ancient hardware. The
default kernel runs on a 386 and things like MCA support are present
  automagically.

Debian makes perfect sense in a H/W limited environment.

Adam Flinton wrote:
>
> BTW I find it odd that most of these are coming off debian (as in this
> case & in the case of ubuntu).

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