[gentoo-dev] Re: Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

["Duncan" <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org> 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means the archs are a third(-ish) of a decade further out of date than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.

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