Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 15:44, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:32:33PM -0500, Benoit Peccatte wrote:
> > 10% of the whole distribution : that's a lot
> > Moreover bandwidth costs too.
>
> multiple architectures can be placed on different servers. The overall
> traffic will not increase and the overall disk space also wont.
>
> But well, perhaps we can just stop supporting <Pentium in the default
> distribution and this will already help. Then a single dedicated server can
> host the "old system debian distribution" for 386/486 compatibility. PErhaps
> even with some space optimized binaries. So we have only 2 sub architectures
> and a build system for user optimized building.
I was talking about kernels.
Anyways, this can be a god idea if :
- there are really few users of 386 and 486
- there is really an improvement using 586 binaries instead of 386
on an average machine.
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