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Re: Minimum specs



* Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto@familiasanchez.net> [050820 04:33]:

> The *absolute* minimum is a 386.

Not any more.  Support for real 386 processor has been dropped:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.html#s-new-kernel

IIRC the problem was, that a c library only supports the creation of
code for 486 processors and above.  There used to be a kernel patch
which emulates 486 processors, but it was bugy, had security problems
and is unmaintained.  So true "80386" CPUs are no longer supported by
sarge.

Yours sincerely,
  Alexander

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