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> From: lisi.reisz@gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 16:46:17 +0100
> On Tuesday 02 June 2015 16:28:30 lostson wrote:
>> On Tue, 2015-06-02 at 16:07 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 02 June 2015 14:55:51 Sven Arvidsson wrote:
>>>
>>> I thought of DSL. But it needs an i486. :-(
>>> http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
>>> http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=damnsmall
>>>
>>> Lisi
>>
>> How about Tiny Core Linux
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>> http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/faq.html#req
>
> Needs i486. :-(
>
The Linux kernel itself requires 486, it doesn't build for 386
anymore.
IIRC it's because it uses the CMPXCHG instruction to
implement locking, and that instruction isn't available on 80386.
Regards,
Arno
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