Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Raymond Jennings <shentino@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 only for i486?
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 01:21:21
Message-Id: CAGDaZ_oJkESqZaSqOCaKUbenguOjSSYnvdnfip8kMWje=uW4VQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 only for i486? by Daniel Frey
1 as for the i486 only thing, my guess is because the kernel dropped support
2 for 386 when 3.8 came out
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5 On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> wrote:
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7 > On 04/02/2013 12:17 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
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9 > > Oh, and "gentoo is fast" is a nono swear word these days. That's ricing
10 > > :-) Nowadays we say the benefit of gentoo is USE so you get what *you*
11 > > want :-)
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14 > When I'm asked, I say that gentoo is extremely flexible and can be
15 > tailored in almost infinite ways depending on its application.
16 >
17 > It's why I'm still using it on the desktop, maintenance time be damned.
18 > I've tried other distros and always come back to gentoo. The lack of
19 > flexibility with other package managers (or lack of being able to
20 > replace the default package manager) on other distros is very
21 > disappointing. Guess I've been spoiled too much...
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23 > Dan
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