Ubuntu on a 486?

[sdavmor]

Pratap Subrahmanyam wrote:
> Peter Hummers wrote:
>> On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 21:35:35 -0500
>> John Richard Moser <nigelenki at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> 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.
>>>     
>> I'm not much of a tree-hugger, but there are too many computers that still work in our landfills. I'd like to see some support for 486; 386s could still serve files, too, as far as that goes ...
>>   
> I second this whole heartedly. I still love my P3 500 MHz box. I'd like 
> to see the community continue to focus on performance optimizations even 
> for these older processors.
> 
> Pratap

My development box is a Celeron 600. And that's only because the
Celeron 400 finally gave up the ghost (and it came after the Pentium
133 fizzed). Where doing so won't get in the way of being productive,
I like to develop on machines that are short on "performance". It
helps keep me from writing sloppy lazy "throw some bigger iron at it"
code. The payback is that I seldom hear from customers about speed
issues of any kind, even those not running blazing fast machines armed
with tons of bonus RAM.
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