Ubuntu on a 486?

John Richard Moser nigelenki at comcast.net
Sun Dec 10 02:35:35 UTC 2006


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Is anyone here running Ubuntu on a 486?  Like, anything the -generic
kernel can't run on?  (-386 is a 486 kernel)

I'm not ready to advocate the 686 push some people want to go for; I
think there may be a wide enough 586 audience out there to warrant
keeping it for a little while.  Still, looking at the 486 and what it's
capable of, I think it may be time to suggest deprecating support for a
processor that can clock 100MHz max.

- --
    We will enslave their women, eat their children and rape their
    cattle!
                  -- Bosc, Evil alien overlord from the fifth dimension
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