Re: Minimum specs - unsubscribe

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On Sat August 20 2005 05:23 am, Alexander Schmehl wrote:
> * 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