[TAG] Linux on older hardware

[Thomas Adam]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 18:22:54 -0400
"Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com> wrote:

> You guys might want to sound off on FireFox bug number... aw, damnit;
> I can't find it.  The current milestone builds of FireFox and Mozilla
> officially available from mozilla.org won't run on *586's*.  They
> build with -march=686 -mcpu=686.  And they don't tell anyone; I
> downloaded the whole damned thing onto my tiny laptop, and got Illegal
> Instruction.

It would never run on a 486, anyway. It would just get killed with an
OOM. That thing is *huge* -- that's why dillo was created. Plus there is
links2 which offers a GUI...

-- Thomas Adam

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