On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 12:13:08PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On pe, 2003-04-25 at 11:09, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote: > > They just don't support i386 anymore. > > > > http://www.suse.de/en/private/products/suse_linux/i386/system_requirements.html > > http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/technical/ > > > > You got to have a Pentium+ for these distributions. > > > > This is quite reasonable, IMO: People with older hardware > > can use older versions of these distributions (which they are > > running probably already, anyway). > > So using a 386 as a router and firewall, which it is perfectly capable > of hardwarewise, isn't going to be an option anymore? For such purposes, > running an older version of Debian (or whatever distribution) isn't an > option, since you have to be able to get security updates. > > I could live with that, but I think it'd be a shame.
I bet someone would rebuild base+some extras using i386 target compiler and make it available, if Debian did that. They would probably serve a few hundred users total, at best. I don't think it would be too much to expect debian-i386 to become a side-project. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
