3 Jun
2013
3 Jun
'13
5:58 a.m.
On 3 June 2013 00:48, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 06/02/2013 07:04 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
I really doubt it. To both.
As "Tothwolf" has observed, embedded Linux is not a major focus of
Linux any more, it seems. The 386 appeared 28 years ago and was
replaced 24Y ago. There are better choices for embedded systems today;
ARM is smaller, cheaper, much faster and uses much less power while
making much less heat; if you want x86 for some reason, Geode is much
quicker & requires much less glue logic.
You do realise that kernel 3.8 explicitly dropped
support for 80386?
It's now 80486 or above.
That was a really stupid thing to do. I suspect it'll be "undone" at
some
point. 80386, oddly, is far from "long dead".
It is in any market I *ever* see.
If your perspective is only for desktoppy-things
sold in retail stores,
sure I can see that, but it's as common now as it ever was (which is to say
"moderately so") in the embedded world, and is still currently produced and
sold. (whether that's a good thing or not is another matter entirely)
As I said - there are better choices and this is a marginal, edge-case
area for modern Linux.
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