<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Gentoo - but I'd recommend NetBSD for older hardware!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757">Sent from my Samsung device running Android (basically Linux in drag)</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000" dir="auto"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <kwlug-disc@kwlug.org> </div><div>Date: 2020-05-25 08:15 (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: kwlug-disc@kwlug.org </div><div>Cc: Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca> </div><div>Subject: [kwlug-disc] Maintained distro for very old CPUs </div><div><br></div></div>I have some ancient AMD Geode ALIX boards. They are x86 compatible (I<br>think they may be i586 compatible, but maybe not i686) but neither<br>Debian nor Ubuntu will run on them because the kernels don't have the<br>right support compiled in. So I am looking for another distro that (a)<br>was not abandoned in 2003 and (b) will run adequately on this<br>hardware. I only need commandline Linux, but having maintained<br>packages (eg OpenSSH) is important. The systems have compact flash<br>cards, not real hard drives. They come with 256MB RAM. <br><br>What are my best options? So far it seems that NetBSD might run<br>on them. Another possibility is Tiny Core Linux. Are there any better<br>options? Obviously I cannot make too many demands on them, but given<br>that one of these was running pfSense for over five years they are<br>capable of running a few things well.<br><br>- Paul<br><br>-- <br>Events: https://feeds.off-topic.kwlug.org <br>Blog: http://pnijjar.freeshell.org<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>kwlug-disc mailing list<br>kwlug-disc@kwlug.org<br>https://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org<br></body></html>