[ale] Building new kernals on old hardware.

[lists at serioustechnology.com (Geoffrey)]

Ned Williams wrote:
> Afternoon aler'ers
> 
> 
> I was wondering if anyone on the list has messed with any of the small
> footprint distributions and if in doing so made any modern apps work, 
> namely
> firefox and jre?
> 
> I have been kicking the idea around of picking up an old 266mhz 
> sub-notebook
> and just building out the OS enough to facilitate basic function,
> browser,ssh, EDGE/GPRS support. The only real question is shrinking the
> modern kernal down enough to be happy on a machine with  < 128 megs of ram.

Slackware.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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