Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 12:00, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:57:57AM +0100, David Goodenough wrote:
> > and remember that many embedded processors still use 486 and 586
> > based chips, and some 386. Lossing 386 might be acceptable in the
> > embedded market (many 386 based systems have too little memory to run
> > Debian) but loosing 486 and 586 would mean that Debian was no longer
> > an option for embedded systems which would be a great loss.
>
> Do these people really use what we put out the door, or do they prune
> the distribution and recompile with different settings and things like
> that? In the later case I don't see why our decision should affect
> them.
>
> -m.
For simple, short run projects why do a whole lot of work when the standard
off the shelf component will do it for you. Yes I go around deleting
a whole bunch of documentation and the like, or rather I only copy
the bits I really need to the CF disk, but wherever possible I use
what gets shipped.
The kernel and associated modules I will rebuild, but I would rather
not rebuild everything else, otherwise I would use Gentoo rather
than Debian.
David
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