Re: Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org

[Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>]

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On Thu, 2003-03-20 09:23:34 -0800, Randy.Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org>
wrote in message <20030320092334.31ee2254.rddunlap@osdl.org>:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:32:07 +0100 Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de> wrote:
> 
> | However, please keep in mind that it's a *PITA* if you're working on a
> | machine with not > 500MHz and > 128MB RAM:
> | 
> | jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ ls -l linux-2.5.65.tar.*
> | -rw-r--r--    1 jbglaw   jbglaw   31889910 Mar 20 11:37
> | linux-2.5.65.tar.bz2
> | -rw-r--r--    1 jbglaw   jbglaw   39711645 Mar 20 11:44
> | linux-2.5.65.tar.gz
> | jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ time tar xjf linux-2.5.65.tar.bz2
> | 
> | real    194m21.665s
> | user    172m55.026s
> | sys     14m19.018s
> | jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ mv linux-2.5.65 linux-2.5.65xx
> | jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ time tar xzf linux-2.5.65.tar.gz
> | 
> | real    39m39.294s
> | user    22m32.306s
> | sys     13m56.524s
> | jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ free
> |              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> | Mem:         10100       9792        308          0        952       5232
> ...
> | jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ cat /proc/cpuinfo 
> ...
> | bogomips        : 15.10
> | 
> | jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ uname -a
> | Linux schnarchnase 2.5.65 #1 Thu Mar 20 07:39:11 CET 2003 i486 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
> 
> What kind of processor/system is that?

It's a UMC chip - a i486 clone without FPU. (I thought that this chip
was an i386 clone but uname tells me different so I believe it.)

However, I've got two early i386 (original Intel brand) laying around
and I'm definitely like installing Linux on them, just to see it
running:-)

MfG, JBG

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