24 Oct
2006
24 Oct
'06
12:29 p.m.
Jim Leonard wrote:
Excellent. This means that, memory and cpu target
permitting, I can use
recent distros on older hardware.
I know that Redhat switched over to Pentium-and-higher only CPU targets
a while ago; do any of the major pre-compiled distros (Fedora Core,
Ubuntu, Debian, etc.) still support 386?
I think Slackware does and I know Debian does out of the box. Even a
late-gen kernel can be built to run in small memory, but you'll probably
want an older distribution anyway, in order to get a userland
lightweight enough to run in < 8MB of memory.
Unless you need something unique to Linux, I'd suggest NetBSD or
OpenBSD for small-memory systems.
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