[ale] Old Laptop

[Jonathan Rickman]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Matthew Macumber wrote:

> The most recent version of Slackware (9.0) seems to have pretty low minimal
> requirements
>
> Processor		386
> RAM			16 MB
> Disk Space	500MB
> Floppy Drive	1.44 MB
>

For the benefit of the archives.

Slack 9.0 will work fine for Robert, but I'd steer clear of anything after
8.1 for a real 386 CPU. The default kernels (with the exception of
lowmem.i) are now optimized for 486 and I sure wouldn't want to have to
compile a modern kernel on a 386. Heck, I wouldn't want to do it on a 486
either. 2.5.72 took over 4 hours on a P133!!!

--
Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net

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