On Nov 29 13:55:45, [email protected] wrote: > Nick Holland <[email protected]> wrote to T. Valent: > > > IF your hardware is so anemic that it can't run GENERIC, I think you > > will do much better getting more realistic hardware > > I differ. I have an old, very old laptop, running OpenBSD. The value > of the laptop is not "the hardware", but its use as typewriter - and > much more - and not risking that it be stolen in a publich library > when one leaves it for a while. It is not only a typewriter, I can > surf with lynx, get files with ftp, read mail, etc. Perhaps for a computer > hacker this is nothing, for me it is of great value. I think also > for a hacker some years ago would have been of great value, a dream. > Unfortunately I couldt compile the kernel: just the tar-ball was too big > for the laptop, for the disc, for the ram.
That's not what "cannot run GENERIC" means.
