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...
thanks,
Will
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