On Tuesday 06 December 2005 01:28, Paul M Foster wrote:
> Many distros these days are compiled for 586 and up. Running an older
> distro is an option, but you don't get a smooth upgrade path or security
> updates.
You don't need to do that, just find one that is not, or recompile it by
optimizing it for 486. It's only one flag change. The security updates are
going to be minimal as you don't have much that can be updated on it anyway.
--Steve Szmidt
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