[wellylug] Compiled software...

[Jethro Carr]

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 16:19, Tim Nicholas wrote:
> > 
> 
> To do that just pick an old type of processor when configuring the 
> kernel. An i386 kernel will work on any x86 box for example. Probably 
> better to compile it for a bog standard Pentium though. The resulting 
> kernel will still work on everything more advanced than a 486. The trade 
> off is that it will be slower for a lot of things than a more specificly 
> optimised kernel would be. It may or may not make a big difference for 
> you. Depends what you are doing.

thanks for the help, I'll try that out...


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