[wellylug] Sarge approaching release

Martin Bähr mbaehr at email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at
Fri Sep 3 13:05:05 NZST 2004


On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 10:05:03PM +1200, David Antliff wrote:
> > Hey all you Debianistas!
> [snip words of a raving fanatic]
> Wow, good to see the enthusiasm for i386 distributions isn't dead after
> all...  :)

i386 distributions?
what do you mean?
debian is not an intel distribution, it is meant to run on any hardware
that can possibly supported.

show me any other distribution that does that.

sure debian could be i586 or i686, but what would be the point?
wouldn't it be paradox to support old m68k hardware but not old intel?

besides what would be the performance gain?
really most of the gain is in having a kernel built for your cpu, and if
you take a closer look, debian has those. that's most of the cpu support
you need. anything else is not worth the hassle of having to provide
multiple versions of a package.

greetings, martin.
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