[OT] Linux hardware requirements

[Hans-Peter Zorn]

Hi, 

Mandrake and its derivates as well as stampede and some other
distributions compile all packages with pentium optimization and will
not work on older machines. SuSE 6.3 ships with a pentium boot kernel
on CD1 which will not run on anything below pentium (even not on
early cyrix "6x86" pentium clones which dont have a TSC) but has a 386
kernel on CD2. So all this doesn't depend on what "Linux" supports but
what the distributors decide to do. If you get the sources from the
net and compile everything without pentium optimizations you can run
linux 2.2 even on 6MB 386sx I guess. Older distributions will work as
well.  Or use a mini-distribution such as tomsrtb or trinux.

73s Hans-Peter

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