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From: Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@...>
Subject: Re: Gnap and google SOC
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:57:36 +0100
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 14:24 -0400, wireless wrote:

> Does it make sense to try to put embedded gentoo on an old x86
> machine? (486 or 586)?
> 
> If not what embedded nix distro would anyone recommend for these
> very old machines, keeping in mind that kids and teenagers will
> be playing with them for projects.......?
> 
> 
> 
> any suggestions are welcome.

You might want to have a look at Alpine Linux

http://alpinelinux.org

It used to be gentoo based but from 1.9.x it uses its own build system,
inspired of Arch linux and gentoo but with a lighter build environment.

-nc



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