At Thu, 03 Nov 2005 18:11:56 -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > > I think i386 debian arch is not suitable anymore for real-i386 machines > (self-experience), I mean, it's not suitable even for a Pentium 133 with > 32 Mb RAM. Ok, I know it works, but it's a waste of memory and CPU > cycles to run a full glibc-based distro in such restrictive > environment...
That's the greatest joy of it -- to see a Free OS running on forgotten machines. This is somehow a liberation of the machines/architectures. My mail server and gateway is ST (Cyrix) at 100 MHz and it's doing fine. Basically you have to follow 3 rules - patience, patience and patience ;-) Compiling a 2.6 kernel on a i486 with 8 MB RAM takes 11-12 days. > So, I would state it as: "Want your 386/486/pentium I running Debian? > help the i386-uclibc port" :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) I'd love to, but unfortunately I'm a translator and documentation writer, I don't have programming skills :/ But I'll follow it closely, thanks. -- Yavor Doganov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]