Hello Bryan, > Frankly, I don't think people recognize the _real_ reason for trying to > keep i386/486 ISA compatibility. It's not to support old systems, but to > support i386/486 ISA embedded microprocessor cores in all sorts of black > box solutions. These solutions have full desktops/GUIs far more than you > may think. i386 still being around would be a reason to not even bump the minimum architecture to i486. But I am not sure if Fedora/RHEL would be the proper distributions to put on such devices. I'd assume the main packages (kernel and glibc) need to be rebuild (or replaced in the case of glibc) for such devices anyway, looking at their size... Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research
