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Supporting older hardware

Posted Sep 17, 2008 12:02 UTC (Wed) by spaetz (subscriber, #32870)
In reply to: Supporting older hardware by dgm
Parent article: KS2008: Linux 3.0

Last I looked, 2.4.36.7 was only released recently. Many of the current security bugs have only been introduced in the 2.6 series, so some people even prefer the stable and tried 2.4 for security reasons. If you want to use your 80286, it might be fully sufficient.

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Posted Sep 17, 2008 14:21 UTC (Wed) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]

> If you want to use your 80286, it [2.4] might be fully sufficient.

LOL. 16-bit processor without an MMU. ELKS supports it, but (a) ELKS is moribund and (b) it never tracked mainline Linux security updates.

Probably better off with minix 1.x.