Re: Debian for i586
This was brought up months ago. The interesting thing from what I remember of
the discussion was that if you optimize for a Pentium, then that's ALL it will
be faster on. K6, K6-2, P2, P3, and Athlon will not see any improvements. This
makes the number of people "helped" by the effort minimal considering how fast
CPU technology is progressing.
Dave Bristel
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 14:00:10 +0100 (CET)
> From: Piotr Roszatycki <dexter@fnet.pl>
> To: Debian Development Mailing List <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Debian for i586
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> This is the old problem. Debian is compiled for i386 architecture and
> it is The Right Thing. But soem time ago Linux Mandrake was
> chosen as the best distribution for workstation because it was optimalized
> for i586.
>
> I think we could prepare official CD with packages optimalized for pentium
> processor. Of course the FTP archive still should be i386 only.
>
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> Piotr "Dexter" Roszatycki
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