Will Francis writes:
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=> I have a 486/100 laptop which I'm going to turn into a
=> sort of embedded device. I'd like to, if possible,
=> run 7.1+XFS on it. It has only 8MB of memory though,
=> so I'm curious if that would be an issue. If so,
=> what would be the minimum recommended amount? It's going
=> to be polling a device over the serial port at certain
=> intervals, so I'm going to shut off as many other services
=> and things like virtual terminals, etc as possible.
=> Would I see much of a savings if I were to recompile the
=> source and tweak, or are things already pretty well
=> modularized? I know that XFS patch is pretty darn big...
I suspect it will run ok - the only way to find out is to try.
I've tested on a 16Mb P100 and it was fine.
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