From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GXIx2-0008Jd-J7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:51:25 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9AEo0xP030404; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:50:00 GMT Received: from v250.atcomputing.nl (at.customer.internl.net [217.149.194.10]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9AEk6hm012272 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:46:10 GMT Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by v250.atcomputing.nl (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id k9AEk5MG001748 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:46:05 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <452BB22D.30106@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:46:05 +0200 From: Paul de Vrieze User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060915) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users References: <1160056361.6289.17.camel@party.homenetwork> <45251647.8080307@gentoo.org> <1160058754.6289.21.camel@party.homenetwork> <45251B7E.9020500@gentoo.org> <45255F73.5000007@gentoo.org> <45256BE9.9030601@gentoo.org> <45260819.7040203@gentoo.org> <1160143601.10578.7.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <20061009101111.6fb6f65f@localhost> <452A0A80.4080407@gentoo.org> <1160398042.10496.16.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <1160419368.6362.5.camel@party.homenetwork> <1160423118l.10540l.4l@spike> <1160431074.6362.9.camel@party.homenetwork> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ba57ea95-4a38-449b-ab08-8aae87d0b100 X-Archives-Hash: 8e61135a10334091aa15c8ca76142d30 Duncan wrote: > Anybody doing Gentoo on even a Pentium original is going to be compiling > for awhile unless they do GRP only, and that's inadvised as GRP isn't > security updated until the next release, six months later! A couple years > ago when I first started with Gentoo and was on the main user list, I > believe I saw a thread where a couple folks claimed to have done it on 486 > mainly to be able to say they'd done so, taking weeks of course to do it, > even compiling 24/7, but a 386? IMO there are better ways to spend your > years... > > Personally, I'd say 686 is the lowest reasonable to support at this point. > Below that, try an appropriate binary distribution and save the days/weeks > of compiling. Of course, Gentoo is highly customizable, and folks could > try it on 386 if they wanted, but I don't believe it's worth supporting > below 686 at this point. That's personally. I'm sure there are folks > that would argue we should at least support 586, but I simply don't > believe it's worth it. > A couple of years ago (when we were still using gcc-2.95 I used to run gentoo on my server machine which was a pentium-60 (with fdiv bug). While it took a while to compile the bigger packages it was certainly workable. I did it because I didn't have a better machine, not to be able to say I did it. Paul -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list