[TriLUG] Linux distro for old via c3 box?

[William Sutton]

Depending on how ancient it is, you should be able to get Gentoo to build 
on it :-)

(I have Gentoo running on a 1GHZ pentium-something class machine with 1 GB 
RAM at work... and it runs faster (despite my lack of architecture 
tweaking) than the year-old Windows PC sitting next to it.

William Sutton

On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Christopher Blackmon wrote:

> I've got an old box I'd like to install Linux on.. but current versions (ie. cd downloads) of Ubuntu/Lubuntu and Fedora 
> "requires the following features not present on the CPU: cx8 cmov"
>
> I read that it was because the new kernels were compiled in i686 machines that had more features than the c3 has.
>
> Any suggestions on a distro that would work?
>
> thanks,
> Christopher.
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