Linux on Pentium era systems
Ben Scott
dragonhawk at gmail.com
Thu Aug 16 15:05:35 EDT 2007
On 8/16/07, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> ... whey do you need a modern kernel?
A lot of wireless chipsets only work with the latest kernels. Or so
I understand. Maybe backported drivers are available.
There's also the question of security updates, which can be an issue
for things like web browsing. But one could always download the
stand-alone binary of Firefox from the Mozilla site.
-- Ben
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