http://lwn.net/Articles/4059/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Limbo: a new Red Hat Linux beta". hourly 2 http://lwn.net/Articles/4187/rss 2002-07-05T04:19:00+00:00 smoogen Other than a couple of packages (gzip, ssl, and ???) the speed improvements were no more than 10% if you compiled everything for a specific architecture (i686 for the P4). Also realize that i586 optimizations can cause slowdowns on i686 systems.. and dont even get into what happens on an AMD/cyrix/etc cpu. Having i386 with some exceptions (kernel, glibc, and a couple of apps) is the safest for most customers... http://lwn.net/Articles/4179/rss 2002-07-04T20:29:09+00:00 tjc <i>Won't there be, this time, also 586 versions?</i><p> Red Hat includes i586, i686, and Athlon kernels, and an i686 version of glibc. I suspect that the performance improvements that would result from processor-specific versions of other packages would be very small, which is why they don't include them.<p> Performance aside, they could do it as a marketing ploy targeted at "checklist" customers, but I don't think we should applaud them if they did that. http://lwn.net/Articles/4173/rss 2002-07-04T17:35:07+00:00 DeletedUser2436 Could someone please tell me what version of Gnome is included in this beta release? Also, do you have a choice to install the old Apache instead of version 2.X at installation time? Thanks. http://lwn.net/Articles/4146/rss 2002-07-04T14:03:22+00:00 mwh And, praise the Gods, the end of Python 1.5.2.<p>All hail 2.2.1. http://lwn.net/Articles/4127/rss 2002-07-04T08:30:52+00:00 DeletedUser2427 Great, and thanks RH!<p>Now to my question:<p>Won't there be, this time, also 586 versions?<br>(and not only 386)<p>Most of the future users of this future release (at least 90% in my humble opinion), will install it under P4, so even 586 is a compromise. 386 compatibility is an ancient thing.<p>I don't know the exact difference in performance, but I'm sure that using the extra capabilities of P4, or at least 586, gives much more power.<p>This is what Mandrake does.<p>So this great version (will become 8.0 one day...), will be even greater with this extra power...<p>Thanks again! http://lwn.net/Articles/4087/rss 2002-07-03T20:22:06+00:00 DeletedUser1717 Hurray! LVM setup is available at installation time. This is good - I really hoped it would be in 7.3....<p>And Apache 2.0 for the first time...<p>And Netscape 4.x finally bites the dust.