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[ruohtula AT netscape.net (Erkki Ruohtula)]

3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
>DAVID L. ORMAND wrote:
>> in responsiveness and quality, but I suspect the
>> 2.6 kernel is too big to go on my 4Mb 486, no
>> matter how barebones I configure.
>
>It is true that the 2.6 kernel has more overhead than the
>2.2.  However, I'm pretty sure that (with a bit of work)
>you could strip down a 2.6 enough to get it running on that
>486.  After all, the current BL3 kernel will boot in 2.5mb
>RAM, so your 4mb RAM should be enough for a stripped 2.6.

In fact, there already is a patch set specifically
aiming to configure the 2.6 kernel to old or other
low-resource systems. See

http://www.selenic.com/tiny-about/

(have not tried, just saw link to it somewhere)

Erkki


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