Re: Why are there only i686 and i586 Version of glibc and kernel? -- i386 is still around

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Hi Per,

> Oh well. To me it sounds like there's a pretty big difference between 
> your 75 MHz Pentium classic and my girlfriend's 550 MHz K6-2 (or 
> possibly 450 MHz, I can't remember, but K6 versions did go up to 550 MHz 
> in any case).

> If Fedora is going to dump this machine class already I'd love 
> to see that based on some benchmarking demonstrating that there is a 
> significant gain for newer machines.

There is no talk of dumping support for i586 and later machines. Maybe
binaries are not optimized for K6s, but you don't have to worry about
those machines not being supported by main stream Fedora. Not sure where
you got that idea.

Leonard.

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