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On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:43:53PM +0000, Thomas Flavel wrote: |
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> > 1.0_rc4-pre2 is fully compatible with all modern Intel and Intel-compatible |
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> > processors, from the i486 on up. While 1.0_rc4-pre2 is optimized for the |
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> > 486, Achim plans to build several different versions of 1.0_rc4 optimized for |
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> > various processors. 1.0_rc4-pre2 has been tested on K6 systems and works |
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> I don't understand why not a 386? I kind of expected the distcd to be 386 |
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> binaries, and then to compile and install optimised to whatever my processor |
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> happens to be? What am I mis-understanding? ;) |
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> How would gentoo be installed on a 386? |
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Very slowly. 386's and bzip2-compressed packages don't exactly get along :) |
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If there's a need, we can create a 386-compatible build. |
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> Excellent. Roughly what size is minimum now? |
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Do you mean the minimum HD space needed for installation? I'd guess about 400Mb |
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of HD space. We haven't specifically attempted to "squeeze" the base install |
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into a minimum of space. If we did, we could probably get it to live in around |
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250Mb, maybe less. If we started recompiling packages and linking them to a tiny |
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libc, we might be able to get this down to <100Mb :) But, since we're all power |
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users, this isn't something that we're focusing on right now. |
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Best Regards, |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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