Camm Maguire wrote: > I'm a wee bit > disappointed at this decision, though, as the main reason for keeping > the older kernels around is to work with old machines with very > limited resources, i.e. quasi-embedded. Can one get 2.4 and 2.6 into > tiny enough form to run a 486 with a floppy only?
2.6 is way more modular than previous kernel lines. With the -tiny patch sets from Matt Mackell you can minimize memory consumption down to system with only 2 megs of RAM: http://www.selenic.com/tiny-about/ It's not currently packaged in Debian, though. Cheers, Moritz
