Per Jessen wrote:
>> Hey, I'm all for it but I really don't think it is very likely in
>> practice, as much as I hate to admit it.
>>
>
> Oh, I doubt it too. 486s are now found mostly in embedded stuff, and
> there are other distros catering for that market. My own 486 firewall
> machine runs fine on 7.1 with updates and patches for openssl,
> iptables, and the kernel. And like someone already said, there are
> almost certainly better distros for that.
>
>
> /Per Jessen, Zürich
>
>
Per, my original assertion was that with M$'s current 'stuff', there is
no chance. It is really nice to know that with Linux, even if you own
and use a dinosaur 486 or 386 box, you can use Linux and with a little
work even have some relatively modern programs to run on it simply
because it is OSS and you *can* invest the time and compile it to run
on your hardware. This is so unlike the welded shut offerings from
M$. Your experience with 7.1 and my blind luck with 10.2 proves Linux
is ultimately the right way. What I hope and pray doesn't happen is
that those that make the decisions don't forget the roots and start
making more changes that obsolete older equipment just because it is
older equipment. Change, for change sake is not always the best route.
The recent 'upgrade' of IDE to be included in SCSI naming and
specification schemes along with SATA drives is a case in point. My
system has still not recovered from that...but that is another story....
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