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From: Davide Carnovale <francesco.davide.carnovale@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 only for i486?
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:31:36
Message-Id: CAFx60_srP52WtuJsTwns=AVBUnsMF=b6ND6SzjvWJh1SFsBHwA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 only for i486? by Bruce Hill
1 Michael, thanks, i know amd64 would be better, i used to had a
2 multilib system, but for now i have a problem with java and 64-bit so
3 i'm stuck on the 32-bit world for now =)
4
5 Bruce, i see that, it looks like it's hardened indeed, i'll see what
6 being hardened means and if it fits me, thank you. anyways i'd expect
7 to also have a non hardened i686 stage 3...
8
9 having a better look at things i can see this:
10 http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/x86/autobuilds/20130305/default/20130305/
11 which has an i686 stage 3. i wonder what changed recently...
12 i guess i'll go with it for now and just update it...
13
14 D
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16 2013/4/2 Bruce Hill <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com>:
17 > On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 07:51:17PM +0200, Davide Carnovale wrote:
18 >> Hi all gentoo people!
19 >> I've been away from gentoo for a while, and I'm in the process of
20 >> reinstalling it today.
21 >> While downloading the stage 3 I noticed that only an i486 version is
22 >> available. As far as I remember, gentoo was best known, back in the
23 >> days, for being fast, as it was one of the first distro to support
24 >> i686... am i wrong with this? if not, why only i486 today?
25 >>
26 >> apart from the reasons behind the decision of shipping only an i486
27 >> stage 3, do you think it's worth the pain to recompile everything
28 >> (like the old stage1) for a different arch? i have an intel i5
29 >> processor.
30 >>
31 >> regards
32 >>
33 >> Davide
34 >
35 > Hi Davide,
36 >
37 > The directories I checked read:
38 > http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/x86/autobuilds/current-stage3-i686/
39 > but the tarball states it's hardened:
40 > http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/x86/autobuilds/current-stage3-i686/stage3-i686-hardened-20130326.tar.bz2
41 >
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