On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 11:30:34AM -0400, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > 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. > All it takes is one major black box vendors to adopt Fedora and we're > talking over a 1% marketshare. As I've said elsewhere, I think this niche would be better served by a Fedora Lite distribution than by making Fedora Core do it. (In fact, I'd include i586 with that.) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
