Re: pentium-optimized debian?
On 19/12/99 Matt Garman wrote:
Is there any type of project that maintains a "pentium optimized" Debian
distribution? Or is there an FTP site that maintains a collection of
Debian packages built with an optimizing compiler (i.e. pgcc)?
nope don't think so, not official anyway.
Is anyone interested in working on something like this? I think it
would be nice to have a Debian equivalent of the Stampede, Enoch, and
Mandrake distributions, which are compiled for Pentium or better
systems.
Just an idea.
just another flame war :-) go search the debian-devel archives for
this topic you will find a [few] massive flamewars over the issue.
the main argument is optimizing for pentium ONLY helps the original
pentium, not any other chip (including PII, PIII etc) and for the
majority of software the optimization is so negligible that it is not
worth bloating the archive further with it. (debian is already HUGE)
please do not take the above comment as invitation to start more flamage ;-)
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Ethan Benson
To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/
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