Timeline for Which Linux or BSD distributions do still support i386, i486 or i586 CPUs?
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| Sep 22, 2018 at 18:51 | comment | added | Mark | After further testing, I can't recommend running Gentoo on a system with less than 96 MB of RAM. Compiling GCC 5.4 on a system with 48 MB took 41 days, and used 360 MB of swap at peak, with some individual files taking more than a day to compile. | |
| Feb 15, 2017 at 22:25 | comment | added | Zan Lynx | @Mark: I can't argue at the moment since I have no Gentoo systems, but I don't remember it that way. | |
| Feb 15, 2017 at 20:05 | comment | added | Mark | @ZanLynx, If you've got a shared filesystem that your target can use as its root filesystem, you can use a custom setting of ROOT on the build system to handle dependency tracking and compilation. Otherwise, your only option is to invoke ebuild directly and do the dependency tracking by hand. | |
| Feb 15, 2017 at 18:24 | comment | added | Zan Lynx | @Mark: I'm a former Gentoo user and as I recall if you are cross-compiling you never need to run the package manager on the target. I believe you need some special configuration to separate your builder and your target's emerge/ports directories but you can handle all the dependencies and such on the builder. Good for cross-building to small RAM targets. | |
| Dec 2, 2016 at 11:40 | comment | added | Axel Beckert | Yes, RAM is another issue. The 760ED from 1996 has less than 50 MB (currently not sure if 32 MB or 48 MB) RAM, but the 760XD (from 1997) has impressive 80 MB RAM. The latter currently runs Debian 8 Jessie. It runs, but rather slow. Disk space is another issue and the 1 GB of the 760 ED is rather small even for a slim Debian desktop, but the 760XD's 3 GB are sufficient. | |
| Dec 2, 2016 at 1:16 | comment | added | Mark | For the most part, yes. You still need that 48 MB of RAM and generous amounts of swap, though: the package manager is rather memory-hungry. | |
| Dec 2, 2016 at 1:13 | comment | added | Random832 | Is it possible to cross-compile Gentoo? | |
| Dec 1, 2016 at 22:02 | history | answered | Mark | CC BY-SA 3.0 |