[wellylug] Jethro's distro

Simon Blake simon at citylink.co.nz
Thu Jul 8 22:37:52 NZST 2004


On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 06:38:48PM +1200, Jethro Carr said:
> On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 15:25, jumbophut wrote:
> > On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 14:06:26 +1200, Jethro Carr  wrote:
> > > 
> > > Important Note:
> > > 
> > > GDM does not run on a system built for an i386.
> > > Don't ask, it just does't ;-)
> > > 
> > 
> > I'd be somewhat surprised to find somebody with a 386 running GDM! 
> > Just out of interest, do you reckon it would work on a system built
> > for an i586, which might *just* cope with GDM?
> 
> Proberly, as all the major distro are compiled for a i586 and up. (ie:
> redhat 9 won't work on a i486 or below)

Can't let that past - Debian is still built for i386, and it certainly 
has GDM.

Cheers
Si




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