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  • Subject: Re: [BL] busybox
  • Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:53:34 +1300

Message from Steven
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sam wrote:
>
> honest question... why 2.2 instead of 2.4?

The 2.2 kernel has a significantly smaller footprint
than the 2.4 kernel. Actually, the 2.2 kernel is
not as old as it sounds. 2.2.26 came out a couple
of years ago and has a number of features back-ported
from 2.4 development

Remember BasicLinux is designed for old computers
(486s and very early Pentiums). Many laptops of
that era had base memories of only 8mb and could
only be upgraded with proprietary memory modules.
RAM is often an issue for those computers.

To get the most out of old, low-RAM computers, you
need slim kernels, slim libraries and slim executables.
That's what BasicLinux is: 2.2.26 kernel, libc5
library and busybox binaries. All are significantly
smaller than what you find on a mainstream distribution.

Cheers,
Steven





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