[TriLUG] Linux distro for old via c3 box?

Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com
Sat Jul 21 12:36:30 EDT 2012


On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:25:15 -0700 (PDT), Christopher Blackmon said:
> 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?

I shoehorned modern Debian + Xfce4 onto a box with a 500mhz processor
and 128 RAM.

I did it by network-installing Debian, just the core. Then, at the
prompt, I did this:

apt-get install xfce4 xfce4-goodies

HTH

SteveT

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