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I was wondering if you ever got a good/stable Linux variant on your i-opener?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 20 2016, @03:48AM
jackb_guppy had some positive experiences with an old release or LFS. [soylentnews.org]
Later builds which required the CPU to support CMOV bombed out. [soylentnews.org]
...and it appears that guy stopped participating here over a year ago. [soylentnews.org]
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BTW, does CMC circa 1985 stir any memories?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 20 2016, @04:55AM
Forgot about a distro I often mention for [soylentnews.org] lightness. [soylentnews.org]
(The AC below mentioned a distro with a much smaller ISO.)
antiX still has support back to i486. [google.com]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22 2016, @07:24PM
Distro Watch lists some Linux distributions, the most popular being openSUSE and Mageia, that ostensibly are compiled for the i586 architecture. I see that Mageia does use "i586" in the file-names for its ISOs.
https://distrowatch.com/search.php?architecture=i586 [distrowatch.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 20 2016, @04:34AM
never had an i-Opener but I found what look like the sources to M4I, a Linux distribution that could run from the 16 MB onboard flash:
https://github.com/mikeymckay/baobab-linux/blob/master/README.txt [github.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 20 2016, @05:00AM
From the page you linked: Winchip 2
That's the nugget, mentioned specifically.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 20 2016, @07:58AM
Even more specifically, it mentions the i-Opener (on line 10).
(Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Tuesday March 08 2016, @03:55PM
I did get Win98 SE running, and used a xircom parallel port to ethernet adapter on it.
There was some glitching with the sound, but adjusting the assigned resources manually resolved that.
I still have the thing. It never ended up doing what I had in mind, because it was just.. awkward to use. I attached a 40GB IDE drive to it and duct taped it to the case, but the glue would lose its stick as the tape warmed up via use of the i-opener and I had to engineer an ugly fix just so I could... drag a cable across to where it was convenient to put this thing.
This was well before wireless was cheaply available (or even then, available via USB ports). Remember, the i-opener it self was a device that came with dial-up service. Most people had dial-up.
By the time wifi became reasonable enough to waste on a device like that, the device itself was not worth the investment aside from a curiosity. I got much more mileage, and still do use, an old laptop from the same era. And the laptop even had a battery...
Still it was a cool concept and was glad I ordered mine and got to play with it. I had to cheat and order that IDE cable, though -- I did not have the skill nor tools to properly make one and I tried and tried and tried...