Testing Gutsy Gibon on a old 440BX with a PII 533 Mhz (fast PII )384 Mb RAM

works fine (Had to use noapic nolapic irqpoll at start though

where on earth did you find a 533MHz PII?

400Mhz one on 133FSB?

Gotta love the old BX, the overclockers friend.

The only limitation to how slow a machine you can run Ubuntu on seems to be RAM. As long as youre packing more than 128mb youre away. I have a 900MHz Celery lappy which refuses to run Ubuntu at all, but I suspect this is because it lacks the magic amount of RAM. 128mb - shared graphics RAM (what idiot ever thought using main memory for graphics was a good idea?)

Yes a 400 on 133 FSB it is  the Gutsy Gibbon wants a minimum of 320 MB RAM to run properly.

I is also fun to put a 1000 to 1400 Mhz Tualatin Celeron on a 440 Bx using a converter they can run surprisingly well the 1000 and even the 1100 can be run with a 133 Mhz FSB giving a very fast 440 BX MB