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On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 14:24 -0400, wireless wrote: |
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> Does it make sense to try to put embedded gentoo on an old x86 |
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> machine? (486 or 586)? |
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> If not what embedded nix distro would anyone recommend for these |
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> very old machines, keeping in mind that kids and teenagers will |
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> be playing with them for projects.......? |
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> any suggestions are welcome. |
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You might want to have a look at Alpine Linux |
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http://alpinelinux.org |
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It used to be gentoo based but from 1.9.x it uses its own build system, |
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inspired of Arch linux and gentoo but with a lighter build environment. |
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-nc |
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