Ubuntu on a 486?

[Adriano Varoli Piazza]

On 12/14/06, Adam Conrad <adconrad at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Adriano Varoli Piazza wrote:
>
> Yes, it's been pointed out several times in this thread that there are a
> large number of 486-class machines still being sold.  The AMD "Elan"
> CPUs are 486-class, and found in a large number of devices on the
> market.  I own several fairly new 486-class machines that I use as
> routers, Oliver spoke of new 486-class thin client boxes, etc.

Hadn't seen those mails you speak about, but then, nobody seemed to
see my first mail to this thread, and my net connection has been
sketchy lately. Thanks for the correction, though. If you mean this
sentence

"there are many new boards that still require at least 486 comaptibility
in the kernel ..."
 by Oliver, I didn't take this as meaning "uses only 486 processors".

> I think you make the mistake here of believing that we expend a great
> deal of energy targetting 486-class CPUs.

I don't "believe" anything. I don't (didn't) know for sure. All I said
was, I as a user of relatively new machines, wouldn't like this for
Ubuntu to be a problem, since their (as I perceived it) main objective
didn't seem to be "running servers on 486-class hardware". If it's no
big deal, great.

But this is my fault. Gmail being almost the only connectivity I have,
and being wrong about the Ubuntu objectives have dragged this thread
for way too long, I think.
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