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by bryanlarsen 1334 days ago
What's the chicken and what's the egg? A large part of the reason that Linux is popular in embedded is because it has a long support period.
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Suzuran 1334 days ago
My point was that the support for 486 was being kept due to its embedded applications and not so someone with a 486-based desktop PC can expect to build a modern distribution on it and achieve full functionality equivalent to a modern machine.
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bryanlarsen 1334 days ago
Not all comment replies are disagreements.
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