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Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?



On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 11:49, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include <hallo.h>
> * William WAISSE [Sat, Dec 21 2002, 05:24:26PM]:
> > > simple, start an i686 distro. its easy enough to making porting to it a
> > > snap.
> > 
> >  I really think thousands of Debian GNU/Linux users would love It
> > 
> >  How about a poll " would you love an  i686 or i586 Debian GNU/Linux distro ?"
> 
> ... and would you like to pay your mirror provider for additional disk
> space and traffic?

i dont see how this would imply a spike in traffic. the whole point of
this is that since i686 has been around for a good few years, most users
will choose it over i386 (thats pentium pro all the way on up to today
and for new chips at least 1-2 years still) and that covers a LOT of
people.




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