The reasons Mandrake stopped at i586...
Posted Feb 3, 2005 5:23 UTC (Thu) by
leonbrooks (guest, #1494)
In reply to:
Interesting, but maybe too late by jd
Parent article:
Fedora Extras available for download
...include:
- Diminishing returns (they still have separate i686 versions of a few core libraries that make a difference); and
- Maintenance is harder with more "architectures": would need to add at least
- Intel i686
- Athlon and beyond
- Intel chips with AMD instructions too
- Funnies for VIA lightweight chips (Eden etc)
and;
- Still works fine on what passes for lowest common denominator hardware these days (walks on 64M P-II, runs in 128M P-III); and
- Warly said so. (-:
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