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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Thu, 4 May 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > Is anyone still using a 486 with BL?
>
> Yes, me.  I still have two 486 laptops that I use
> regularly.  Last week I used one of them to do a
> MagicPoint presentation to the City Council.
>
> > Perhaps BL should split into a desktop branch suitable
> > for 200MHz cpu and  64MB RAM, and a laptop/floppy disk
> > branch, with different kernels and libraries.
>
> That's not going to happen.  BasicLinux will remain
> focussed on the low end.  There are plenty of other
> options for the mid-range (eg DSL).
>
> There are still plenty of 386/486 laptops being sold at
> the local auction site.  Which Linux is for them?
>
> > BL4 for desktops with qemu package, etc?
>
> Nope.  Besides, I'm currently running qemu on BL3.
> Why do we need a different BL to do that?

Maybe set up a BL3-upgrade URL, with packages of the libraries needed to 
use BL3 with Opera or qemu or Firefox on computers with more RAM and 
faster CPUs.  I will have qemu figured out soon, and I really doubt you 
need all those packages that James listed - just part of qemu itself, 
libasound, and libDSL and symlinks to them (plus icewm's libraries and a 
few libraries from glibc).

> Cheers,
> Steven
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