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sleepy duck pond appreciator 🦆✨🏳️🌈@nina_kali_nina a cip kernel? 👀
@0x47df 'coz SLTS :3 tis is a pre-Pentium-III machine. Though arguably I should upgrade the OS, it's old.
@nina_kali_nina Ah! I wondered, I have some modern embedded stuff with CIP kernel and I hadn’t encountered it before, so I was kinda spooked seeing it in older hardware. But it makes sense!
be0ba@nina_kali_nina @0x47df
If you're willing to settle for building embedded images instead of full distributions, buildroot works really well for older hardware. I'm running 6.16.7 on a 486 w/64MB of RAM (as a BGP/Babel router using bird 2). buildroot also actually includes cip kernels as an option if you wanted to stick with that.
I haven't used Yocto at all (way too much for what I actually need), but my understanding is it's more along the lines of a build-your-own-distro if you want to put the effort to handle many older machines.
If you're willing to settle for building embedded images instead of full distributions, buildroot works really well for older hardware. I'm running 6.16.7 on a 486 w/64MB of RAM (as a BGP/Babel router using bird 2). buildroot also actually includes cip kernels as an option if you wanted to stick with that.
I haven't used Yocto at all (way too much for what I actually need), but my understanding is it's more along the lines of a build-your-own-distro if you want to put the effort to handle many older machines.
Eric de Redelijkheid 
@nina_kali_nina We used to call that kind of laptop a “paving stone”
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Lorenzo@nina_kali_nina I love that Compaq keyboard! Laptop keyboards used to be so much better, with real three dimensional keys. I would pay real money for a new laptop with an old keyboard…
@nina_kali_nina (and the armada wasn’t even that good…)
nys@nina_kali_nina cip kernel, I didn't know it, you learn something new every day, and it seems not exactly the same as a LTS of a general distro