as for the i486 only thing, my guess is because the kernel dropped support
for 386 when 3.8 came out


On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Daniel Frey <djqfrey@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 04/02/2013 12:17 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >
> > Oh, and "gentoo is fast" is a nono swear word these days. That's ricing
> > :-) Nowadays we say the benefit of gentoo is USE so you get what *you*
> > want :-)
> >
>
> When I'm asked, I say that gentoo is extremely flexible and can be
> tailored in almost infinite ways depending on its application.
>
> It's why I'm still using it on the desktop, maintenance time be damned.
> I've tried other distros and always come back to gentoo. The lack of
> flexibility with other package managers (or lack of being able to
> replace the default package manager) on other distros is very
> disappointing. Guess I've been spoiled too much...
>
> Dan
>
>
>