On Friday 08 April 2005 12:25 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: > On Thursday 07 April 2005 15:14, Tim wrote: > > Where can i find earlier versions of Mandrake Linux suitable to work on > > a Pentium 233 with 80 MB ram. > > Why not use Gentoo, where each package is compiled on the fly for the > processor in question?
Well, probably because Gentoo would take about 5 years to compile on that machine. Despite all the optimizations, running Gentoo on anything less than a 1.5-1.6 GHz machine is IMO crazy, since everything has to be compiled. It takes forever on anything slower. -- /g
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