[PLUG] Eee PC 701

King Beowulf kingbeowulf at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 01:49:07 UTC 2014


On 03/08/2014 02:42 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:


>    Earlier versions of Slackware were designed for processors without PAE and
> run in small systems. I had Slackware-9.x (I think that's the version) on a
> Toshiba model whose name I forget with 96M RAM and a small hard drive. Ran
> xfce3, too.
> 
> Rich
> 

FYI, from Slackware.com change logs:

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# Effective August 1, 2012, security patches will no longer be     #
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