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Re: Debian Packages compiled with PGCC



On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 09:51:57AM +0100, Sami Dalouche wrote:
> recommended) with PGCC. The minority who have a 386/486 now can't probably use
> these software because their CPU is too slow and if they want, they could use
> the src to compile the softs on them own ?

The whole ideal of Linux is to be able to run on those old 386/486
systems, and I think that minority is a lot bigger than you think. Just to
point out, you think it's not good for them to run these packages on
386/486, but making them compile them (which is way more CPU intensive) is
ok?

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