Re: SMP & custom partition support? & current version?

George wrote:

> Dear Sirs,
> 
> I have just found ArkLinux and from what I'm reading on line about it, it
> looks GREAT! I do have a few of quick questions:
> 
> 1) My target machine is an ALR Quad 6 that has 4 Pent-Pro 200 Mhz cpus and
> 128 MB of ram alogn with multiple 9 GB SCSI hard drives. Does ArkLinux
> support SMP (even if I have to recompile the kernel later to get it
> working)
> 
> 2)and does it support custom partitioning (ie to allow me to put /home on
> a hard drive by itself)?
> 
> 3 As of today, what is the "current tested" version? The read me on the
> ftp site states that 12.1 is the latest tested version. However I see a
> 12.2 available for download. has that been tested?
> 
> Any comments on weather or not it would be worth puttin ArkLinux on a
> machine this old are also welcome. I think it would make for a very
> interesting Linux box, far more interesting than putting say W2K on it :-)
> 
> -George

I suppose you could give it a try, but the minimum requirements are much
hihgher, 12.2 is is the current release in dockyard, however there havn't
been any updates for quite a while, we are in a migration process. Ark
requires 3gb of space minimum and 4 is our recommended. Ark does have smp
kernels.
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