[geeks] Woody was: UltraLinux (was: [rescue] web server loadbalancing...)

[Phil Brutsche]

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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> I've moved this over to the geeks list since it's way out of sun
> territory now.

At least it's not hostile territory :)

> I've got that little 8meg 486/100 laptop, and it runs fine on 2.2.19.
>
> Leaving aside the "fact" that woody (and potato) can't install on the
> 7meg of available ram (I did it anyway, with potato)

Um... I installed slink in 8 meg once :)  Generally I won't touch a
computer unless either 1) it's got 16 meg of ram or 2) I'm about to
upgrade it to 16 meg (or more) of ram.  Beyond that everything I'm
surrounded by has at least 32 meg (many as high as 256-512 meg and soon
even higher)

Yes I'm spoiled

> Will woody with 2.4 work okay?

Woody will work fine with 2.4.  Hell, Potato works fine as long as you
upgrade modutils and probably others as needed by your setup.

> Is it worth upgrading?

YES

> I haven't honestly played with the 2.4 kernel yet- how is the size
> comparing to the older kernels?

It's... different.  Overall it's about the same.  It uses the page cache
more aggressively, though.

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