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 1GXgqy-0004Ec-On for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:22:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9BGKnAw020031; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:20:49 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9BGIeJp025172 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:18:40 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id p27so128456ugc for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:18:40 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=WuROtW5F/Ww1SkVNWAtv1hTRcrsOttlN+EEYJaOE3JNuLLoLFtiy84phNRw4RMJPPIx3xS5ySQzGCIuhuUJdoZ6Iy6WDv4J8UHqnEyZASaKKCdSabyRRDEexlZ8qsY0Z9Bx5o81wGqrefjzfGWpPbu53HY+1is2Y4OA+ze4G/RU= Received: by 10.66.222.9 with SMTP id u9mr1288049ugg; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:18:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.232.4 with HTTP; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:18:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <81bfc67a0610110918y44187435l54c6b3b2bbb3893f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:18:37 -0400 From: "Caleb Cushing" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users In-Reply-To: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1160056361.6289.17.camel@party.homenetwork> <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> <452BB22D.30106@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 4f88a7a4-4f85-4db9-91e5-777366563b5c X-Archives-Hash: 9252e396374737d89617ed02d1b40bd2 I fear the idea that valid bugs may be closed do to a -march=i586. release media should not have to be tuned to i386. perhaps thes older machines shouldn't be a priority, but that doesn't mean they should become completely unsupported. if a general move to i686 is desired perhaps the archs should split x86 and i686 or some such. and applications that are unable to be supported on < i686 be removed from the x86 tree. On 10/11/06, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote: > Paul de Vrieze posted 452BB22D.30106@gentoo.org, > excerpted below, on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:46:05 +0200: > > > 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. > > Well yes, except that I'd guess that was a bit more than a couple of years > ago (I've been on Gentoo since 2004.0/2004.1, and IIRC it was gcc-3.3 > then, so 2.95 would have been what, at least three years ago??). That > means the archs are a third(-ish) of a decade further out of date than > they were then. That's a significant amount of time in computer terms. > > Anyway, not supported doesn't mean can't do it. As I suggested in a > different reply, it could and would likely still be done, just as Gentoo > based systems are run on all sorts of stuff according to embedded, and in > fact they may choose to continue some support, as I believe pentium-class > embedded is quite popular. Not supported just means less frequent install > media or bootstrapping from other distributions instead of Gentoo install > media, and that bugs can be closed if desired and appropriate, based on > that alone. > > -- > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- > and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list