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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.