[rescue] Oracle making just a little harder to keep old machines in use

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Fri May 7 06:36:20 CDT 2010


On 05/07/10 02:46, Jonathan Groll wrote:
> I wouldn't expect to run a modern desktop with recent 2.6 kernel with
> only 96MB of RAM by default - I'm pretty sure that you can if you're
> determined enough - but in hardware of that era the kernel that was
> used was 2.4!

2.4?  2.2 more likely, if not even 2.0.

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