On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 15:19 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > 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.) > > I agree with this. The thought of trying to make Fedora Core fit every possible scenario doesn't make sense and will hurt the overall product. IMHO, it's goal is to be a usable desktop and low-end server platform. It is not intended to be a 32mb, livecd, 386SX, micro-router distro. There are other projects out there that attempt to fill those various niches. -- David T Hollis <dhollis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
