Re: [gentoo-user] single core athlon?

Thank you, I only tried another distro for quick checking of hardware.  current bsd (at least netbsd) doesn't so i figured that if it's possible at all Gentoo would be the way to go, besides i prefer to only use one distro at a time, though i've spent some time with 3 brands of mainframe all with a different os and picked up some Cobol, fortunately not much cobol.   it'll only be doing lite duty and probably won't even be on all the time, but i like playing so another machine helps and i might have some light lifting where the power savings would be nice if it's always on.

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7. Jan 2018 23:46 by alan.mckinnon@×××××.com:


> I have one of those under my desk at home. Finally switched it off for the last time about 2 months ago.
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> So yes, you can run 64 bit Gentoo on it just fine. Make the appropriate changes in make.conf and away you go.
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> Just because distro X does not support cpu Y in mode Z does not mean that the compiler doesn't support it.
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> On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 5:15 AM,  <> mad.scientist.at.large@××××××××.com> > wrote:
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>>           >> Does any body know if it's possible to set up gentoo on a single core 64 bit athlon, old socket 754?  I tried another distro and it said it didn't support non-smp 64 bit.  If not i'll have to put some 32 bit os on it.  I'm planning to use it mostly for a local boot server for os installs or possibly firewall, maybe eventual honey pot since it is low energy usage.   I know it's not supported by current BSD or windows.  Thanks.
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