Hi!

spiralofhope - 01.07.20, 05:53:38 CEST:
> On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 16:53:19 +0200
>
> "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <dr.klepp@???> wrote:
> > A word of condolence to anybody fixed on old hardware. If you cannot
> > upgrade, there is still the BSD-family which offer support down to
> > 80486. And they, too, are systemd-free
>
> It's been a while, but I wonder if Slackware would be the Linux
> alternative:
>
> http://www.slackware.com/
>
> There is a non-SMP (single processor) kernel mentioned here:
>
> http://www.slackware.com/releasenotes/14.2.php

I bet one could use "make bindeb-pkg" to just build a kernel package
that works on this old hardware and then stuff it into the machine
*before* upgrading.

Unless it is not just the kernel but also glibc or something somehow not
working on older hardware.

Ciao,
--
Martin