Joel> On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
>> > exceed 10-20% of whatever they asses the value of the goods to be
>> rather > than say, what I consider the replacement value of a 486
>> with 16mb for > shipping and insurance purposes. This amounts to
>> highway robery by armed > bandits masquerading as government
>> officials.
>>
>> So you advocate 3rd world armed rebellion over making Linux run on
>> small memory architectures ?
>>
>> I wouldnt go quite that far personally
Joel> Actually It's more like an armed rebellion against customs
Joel> officials... Realisically I think 16MB is an attainable goal
Joel> for most 486's and if you're running any os short of just plain
Joel> dos you should probably shoot for that much, particularly if
Joel> it's being used in some sort of server application.
As Alan has been arguing, there are a lot of third world countries
where they are happy to just get 386's, 486's are often high-end boxes
in these places and having 8MB of ram can be high-end as well.
They often run Linux in those areas ... well I really don't need to
explain why, do I? ;-)
I think its important that those people can continue to benefit from
the free software communities and in particular Linux. I don't expect
all features of the kernel to be able to available on an 8MB box, but
a stripped down version really ought to be usable for them.
Jes
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