Re: Debian for i586
Since we do not "Market" Debian commercially, it doesn't matter if people
belive that Mandrake will work better for them. System Administrators and those
knowledgeable about Linux will know that Mandrake's benefit doesn't ammount to
anything. Corel on the other hand will hopefully have some good luck with their
efforts.
Dave Bristel
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:59:04 +0100 (CET)
> From: Piotr Roszatycki <dexter@fnet.pl>
> To: David Bristel <targon@targonia.com>
> Cc: Debian Development Mailing List <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: 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.
>
> --
>
> Piotr "Dexter" Roszatycki
> mailto:dexter@fnet.pl
>
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