Re: [opensuse] Re: legalities

Eberhard Roloff wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:

Richard Creighton wrote:


I cranked up 10.2 on a
486DX-2 the other day just to see it run...slow, but it ran :)

How exactly did you manage that? Have you got a 486-version of 10.2?

I've got a 486DX2 machine running as firewall/gateway, but it's stuck on
SuSE 7.1 - I would certainly be interested in getting it upgraded to
10.2. The 256Mb yast memory requirement might be a problem, but I'm
sure I'll find a way around that.


/Per Jessen, Zürich

imho, for this machine, you are MUCH better off by using ipcop.

http://ipcop.org

kind regards
Eberhard

This machine was a junker and I put a 'pull' drive that had an already
installed minimum install of 10.2 and lo and behold, it actually ran.
Don't ask me how :) I wasn't really expecting anything except maybe
the bios (if I was lucky) messages. Would it have installed from a
CD? Dunno, probably not but this was from a drive that already had an
installation on it from earler experiments and a self-compiled kernel
about a year ago, I guess. It only ran for about 10 min before it
froze (heat) which is why I now remember I pulled it in the first
place, but it was an interesting experiment non-the-less, and does
illustrate the 'Linux runs on junk as well as modern machines'. Hell,
Linux is running in my TIVO Direct-TV DVR right now and probably my
washing machine :) I went through a McDonalds/Wendys/BurgerKing (don't
wanna prejudice anyone) drive up ordering podium to place an
order....It was running Windows...It had the Blue Screen of Death
displayed....I laughed my (four letter word for posterior) off! I
don't support that chain anymore :)

Richard

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