Hi, my desktop pc is an athlon 62x2 with 2 GB of ram and is running Slackware 13.0 with KDE. For experimentation i use a P IV 1.6 GHz, Slack 13.0, no X. Asterisk server Phenom 9550 2 GB ram. Also Slack 13.0 without X.
I also have an old PII 400 MHz with 64 MB, Celeron 333 MHz and until recently a 150 MHz PI. Those three also running Slackware 13.0 without X and working as headless servers. Those old machines are doing a very good job and i have no plans of upgrading them. They need to be secure and lightweight. I think that's done by running recent versions of software and getting from the distro the essential parts. From my point of view it would be great to run the latest and greatest version of Slackware, having in mind the limitations of hardware. Thanks! Gustavo Patagonia Argentina (First post! Sorry for my bad english...) |
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I seriously doubt that a i686 based Slackware Linux 13.2 will disturb you and you confirm my opinion that a i586 target is more than enough today. ;) |
It's a long time since I last saw a working 486 desktop, but 486s are still common in industrial PCs and embedded single board computers - you can still buy them today.
Many of these run Slackware |
Industrial PCs and embedded single board computers are produced by companies. They have for sure a software department (read some engineers that earn money).
I don't see why The Great P should support companies that I seriously doubt that give something back. These companies should pay it's software department properly, not to wait from Slackware to make their work. So, the "industrial PC" argument fail. |
Besides, I doubt that such hardware uses vanilla Slackware. They probably do a lot of tweaking and I'm sure they can do a recompile to support i486 if they want to.
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SBC users often give back code, both to the kernel source and various applications.
They are maybe more likely to buy a dvd from PV than home users too. Embedded designs have much longer production lifetimes than desktop machines. This is why you can still buy 486 boards - for a >3 year old design running Slackware 11.x If I did a new design, I would use a Pentium M or Atom This means that the industrial/embedded community does not need 486 support in 13.1+, just don't drop it retrospectively in older releases |
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http://www.slax.org/ |
Did anyone notice that you can't install stock Slackware on i486 and i586 anyhow? The kernel is build for i686 since ages - and as it seemed to please everyone it sounds reasonable to build the rest for i686 too, doesn't it?
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This is from Slackware-current 32bit Code:
CONFIG_M486=y |
You seem to run a different slackware than me:
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dakini]~# egrep "CONFIG_..86" /boot/config-generic-smp-2.6.33.4-smp |
Only the SMP kernel are compiled for i686 and higher, the non-SMP kernel is still compiled for i486.
From the Slackware-HOWTO: Code:
With most systems you'll want to use the |
Thx, Bob. I see. As the same HowTo strongly recommends to install the SMP kernel even on machines with single core and as a default install installs header files for the smp kernel not for the non-smp one, I never installed those non-smp kernels.
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True (seamonkey, too), but we were talking about x86.
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