Re: FC2 devel/i386 vs VIA EPIA boards

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 01:57:19PM -0500, Toshio wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 13:39, Dave Jones wrote:
> > The fact that most of the boards that run < 686 cpus won't
> > hold enough ram to run FC is probably one strong reason to
> > not bother with an i386/i486 kernel.
> 
> Actually, FC will probably _run_ on minimal RAM as well.  I have a 486
> with 8MB of RAM running RH9.  I had to do all sorts of crazy stuff to
> get it installed, but running it hasn't given me any troubles.

FC with xfce (as now in Rawhide) is quite usable on a 32Mb 486DX100 laptop.
486SX is a bit of a disaster as all the newer UI stuff is FP happy