On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 03:04:33PM -0400, Stan Bubrouski wrote: > Not to doubt you, but there are plenty of people using their old 586's > for everything from local ftp servers to gateways, etc... there are lots > of uses for i586's that don't need X. Certainly. I was, until two years ago. And I've got a Toshiba Libretto pentium subnotebook which I still use. I'm just not sure that this is these are the targets for a general-purpose distribution. > > I'm very sympathetic to making Linux run on older hardware, but Fedora is > > already pretty unfriendly to those systems as is. Why not just make the > How so? A stripped down install is still more powerful than a palm :) On the contrary -- a tailored install can be a lot more powerful than a shoehorned general-purpose system. > > can cover before that. > A simple stripped down install of fedora works on 586 CPUs, -X and the > flashy crap and you got a nice small server. The fact of the matter is > people still use them. This reminds me of running X on my p166, boy > those were trying times ;-) I don't doubt that it works. I *would* be interested in seeing some real numbers on usuage. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
