Alan, thanks a lot for the cool description of you guys, I hope i'll get to know you all :-)
Francesco, thank you, but you linked alpha and amd64, and i can't see any recent one for x86
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On Tuesday 02 April 2013 19:51:17 Davide Carnovale wrote:
> Hi all gentoo people!
> I've been away from gentoo for a while, and I'm in the process of
> reinstalling it today.
> While downloading the stage 3 I noticed that only an i486 version is
> available. As far as I remember, gentoo was best known, back in the
> days, for being fast, as it was one of the first distro to support
> i686... am i wrong with this? if not, why only i486 today?
>
> apart from the reasons behind the decision of shipping only an i486
> stage 3, do you think it's worth the pain to recompile everything
> (like the old stage1) for a different arch? i have an intel i5
> processor.
>
> regards
>
> Davide
Your bookmarks are very very old ;)
The stage3 is available for almost every supported arch, see for example:
http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/alpha/autobuilds/current-stage3/
http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-stage3/
those above are two links taken from:
http://www.gentoo.org/main/it/where.xml
HTH. Ciao
Francesco