On Thursday 19 November 2009 10:42:51 pm Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 08:24:58PM +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > Though the system in case is not such an "ancient" platform. i386 is > > alive and well. Even FreeBSD supports it. Linux surely does. > > I think i486 is now the lowest supported platform on Linux, well at > least on Debian. > > -- > Chris.
I think both BSD and Linux support those. Well, most anyway. A lot fo the new shiny distros don't anymore, but Slackware has i486 opts as far as I know. I think Pat said that there wasn't much of a difference between the i486 and i586 other than it would no longer let you use a 486 so he kept i486. FreeBSD is mostly the same in that it will in fact still run nicely on older stuff like that. I use freeBSD here for a couple things because I like it and Linux both. I don't choose sides because I like and use both. I have a Slackware tee shrt and a FreeBSD tee shirt. lol. I also still have older versions of Slackware and FreeBSD here just in case I find someone using a 386 as a door stop since that's more than enough to play DooM on last I checked (If you have an older version) either way, I still have the disks. -- http://www.myspace.com/farmacyofhorror Digital Horror Punk - Music I make! All done with LMMS All done with Linux and FreeBSD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
