On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 08:24:35AM -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > Using .i586.rpm's wouldn't buy us anything (-march=i586 -mtune=pentium4 > is almost equivalent to -march=i486 -mtune=pentium4 and not > many programs really use cmpxchg8b instructions (which is not > even generated by GCC)) and moving the low bar to > .i686.rpm (note, i686 for GCC/rpm means i686 with X86_FEATURE_CMOV) > is probably too early for Fedora Core (there are still too many > VIA CPUs without cmov and even some Pentium's in use). I think that if the time isn't FC3, it's very very soon after that. I know that there are many older systems out there, and that they can have a very useful life under Linux, but there are other more focused, lightweight distributions which might be better choices there. Perhaps there could even be a Fedora Lite project branch, if there's enough interest. (And if there's not enough interest, that says something too.) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
