which Linux distro would run on a 486 or a pentium 200 (even with MMX)

Jing Su jingsu-26n5VD7DAF2Tm46uYYfjYg at public.gmane.org
Mon Nov 22 04:00:55 UTC 2004


> X or by the kernel framebuffer drivers (the vesafb driver is for
> VESA 2.0), but it may be possible to get them to pretend to be VESA 2.0
> with a little help from DOS at the cost of about 1MB RAM.

I've heard of this trick, but never been able to find a reference to how
it's done.  Got a pointer?

-Jing
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