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On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 07:51:17PM +0200, Davide Carnovale wrote: |
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> Hi all gentoo people! |
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> I've been away from gentoo for a while, and I'm in the process of |
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> reinstalling it today. |
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> While downloading the stage 3 I noticed that only an i486 version is |
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> available. As far as I remember, gentoo was best known, back in the |
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> days, for being fast, as it was one of the first distro to support |
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> i686... am i wrong with this? if not, why only i486 today? |
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> apart from the reasons behind the decision of shipping only an i486 |
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> stage 3, do you think it's worth the pain to recompile everything |
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> (like the old stage1) for a different arch? i have an intel i5 |
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> processor. |
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> |
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> regards |
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> |
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> Davide |
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Hi Davide, |
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The directories I checked read: |
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http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/x86/autobuilds/current-stage3-i686/ |
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but the tarball states it's hardened: |
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http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/x86/autobuilds/current-stage3-i686/stage3-i686-hardened-20130326.tar.bz2 |
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Haven't personally used a x86 in years. |
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. |
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