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Webconverger 12

Webconverger 12

Posted Apr 16, 2012 20:08 UTC (Mon) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955)
Parent article: Webconverger 12

Assuming that 'compiled to run on 486 processors' means that it uses the Debian '486' kernel flavour, this is not a good idea for a live system. This configuration only supports a single processor, whereas virtually all new systems have some form of SMP (multi-core or hyperthreading).

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