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i-opener Linux Image

Journal by dlong

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

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 20 2016, @03:48AM (#307255)

    jackb_guppy had some positive experiences with an old release or LFS. [soylentnews.org]

    I found PUPPY 4.3.1 works well, or build a GENTOO

    Later builds which required the CPU to support CMOV bombed out. [soylentnews.org]

    AMD K5 and K6 claimed to be i686-compliant but that was marketing hype.
    Your chip suffers from the same sort of dishonest specsmanship

    ...and it appears that guy stopped participating here over a year ago. [soylentnews.org]

    .
    BTW, does CMC circa 1985 stir any memories?

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 20 2016, @04:55AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 20 2016, @04:55AM (#307269)

    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]

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22 2016, @07:24PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22 2016, @07:24PM (#308314)

    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]