Re: Debian for i586
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, David Bristel wrote:
> 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.
Yes, I remember.
I'm not a marketing specialist, but processor optimalization is a fact,
so many people install Mandrake because they belive it is faster, i.e.
than Debian.
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Piotr "Dexter" Roszatycki
mailto:dexter@fnet.pl
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