Re: Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

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On Thu, 2003-03-20 09:23:34 -0800, Randy.Dunlap <[e-mail]>
wrote in message <[e-mail]>:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:32:07 +0100 Jan-Benedict Glaw <[e-mail]> =
wrote:
>=20
> | However, please keep in mind that it's a *PITA* if you're working on a
> | machine with not > 500MHz and > 128MB RAM:
> |=20
> | 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
> |=20
> | 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
> |=20
> | real    39m39.294s
> | user    22m32.306s
> | sys     13m56.524s
> | jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ free
> |              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cach=
ed
> | Mem:         10100       9792        308          0        952       52=
32
> ...
> | jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ cat /proc/cpuinfo=20
> ...
> | bogomips        : 15.10
> |=20
> | jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ uname -a
> | Linux schnarchnase 2.5.65 #1 Thu Mar 20 07:39:11 CET 2003 i486 unknown =
unknown GNU/Linux
>=20
> 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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