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On Tuesday 10 October 2006 11:13, Duncan wrote: |
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> Personally, I'd say 686 is the lowest reasonable to support at this point. |
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> Below that, try an appropriate binary distribution and save the days/weeks |
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> of compiling. Of course, Gentoo is highly customizable, and folks could |
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> try it on 386 if they wanted, but I don't believe it's worth supporting |
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> below 686 at this point. That's personally. I'm sure there are folks |
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> that would argue we should at least support 586, but I simply don't |
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> believe it's worth it. |
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There are plently of people using VIA C3 class chips which are i586 in their |
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home servers because they are cheap, but more importantly very quiet as they |
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don't require CPU fans. |
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Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o> |
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