[ale] Building new kernals on old hardware.

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Fri Jun 15 15:01:50 EDT 2007


I don't see any problem with the kernel. I think your real concern
should be the GUI environment. XFCE would probably work well if you
want a full desktop environment. Otherwise, you will probably want to
stick with a window manager only.

On 6/15/07, Ned Williams <nedj10 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Afternoon aler'ers
>
>
> I was wondering if anyone on the list has messed with any of the small
> footprint distributions and if in doing so made any modern apps work, namely
> firefox and jre?
>
> I have been kicking the idea around of picking up an old 266mhz sub-notebook
> and just building out the OS enough to facilitate basic function,
> browser,ssh, EDGE/GPRS support. The only real question is shrinking the
> modern kernal down enough to be happy on a machine with  < 128 megs of ram.
>
> thanks,
> Ned Williams
>
>
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