Wow! On my 486 w/16MB RAM it took five minutes. It started out as 5 minutes with 0.95, and continued to be in that time range for quite a few kernel revisions because at one point I switched my 486/33 to a 486/66 CPU.First time I ever compiled the Linux kernel was on a Northgate 386/20 w/ 4MB RAM running SLS 1.0 and kernel .96. Took 8 hours!
Debian should run on 486s.
Is it possible to get BusyBox to run on 386?
That's quite neat really.Yes. I've compiled and run it on a 2.4 kernel on a 386/20
Seems NetBSD/386 dropped i386 support in 2007 http://www.netbsd.org/ports/i386/
From the NetBSD site:They need to change their motto:
Has anybody seen a working definition of "modern Operating System" that would explain what they are talking about? Tanenbaum's book by that title was published in 1992 so I don't see why 386 support would not be relevant. Perhaps the OS fashion police have been out issuing citations.Support for the 80386 processor has been removed as this processor doesn't have the necessary instructions for efficient operation of a modern Operating System.