I am thinking about tinkering around with setting up my own personal copy of AntiX. What I am curious about is how can you tell which kernel to use? I understand that as hardware improves, a lot of times the kernel is upgraded to cover the newer hardware, but sometimes tend to drop the older hardware. Where can I go to learn more about the different kernels?

My intent is to keep using older hardware like the Pentium III and older motherboards like for the Dell Optiplex GX110. I would hate to use a kernel that doesn't support this antique.

P.S. I was able to re-solder an OEM BIOS chip back onto my original motherboard. Now my JUNKBOX is purring along at 997 Mhz with a stable timing. BIOS clock is keeping correct time, even after being tortured with Prime95 for 12 hours.

Well, when I played around with my emachine 3507 via smxi and Debian, Aptosid, and Liqourix Kernels.

I made sure I had a good working backup which then for me was a kernel by Stevo that was a 2.6.34 kernel and went from that to what I run now which is a
3.12 aptosid kernel.

I knew I kept this link in my gmail account for something.
I guess this something is now.


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I guess this something is now.


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'Thanks roky. But what I was looking for was a website somewhere explaining the different kernels (Debian I suppose), what they did, and what was changed from the previous version. I suppose I could take something like 3.7.10-antix.3-486-smp, strip off the drivers I don't need, and add the ones I need for my hardware. I was just given a couple of OLD HP desktops with P II CPU's, but can't get antiX 13.1 to even load on a LIVE cd. I'm using this playing around to learn something that I have forgotten.

For the past 3 years, I have been having trouble concentrating enough to keep a steady hand soldering 2 wires together, like when installing a radio in a car. Then suddenly I remembered how to un-solder, wicking it off, and re-solder a BIOS chip with no problems. And got my MB to work again.