On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 15:44, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:32:33PM -0500, Benoit Peccatte wrote: > > 10% of the whole distribution : that's a lot > > Moreover bandwidth costs too. > > multiple architectures can be placed on different servers. The overall > traffic will not increase and the overall disk space also wont. > > But well, perhaps we can just stop supporting <Pentium in the default > distribution and this will already help. Then a single dedicated server can > host the "old system debian distribution" for 386/486 compatibility. PErhaps > even with some space optimized binaries. So we have only 2 sub architectures > and a build system for user optimized building.
I was talking about kernels. Anyways, this can be a god idea if : - there are really few users of 386 and 486 - there is really an improvement using 586 binaries instead of 386 on an average machine.
