I have heard that pentium optimised code will work on 386's. I have
even heard that I think suse use pentium optimisations on there
release
stuff (and not in its own section). Personally I would think that
would be a bad idea even if it does work though, but it is just my two
cents.
Peter Allen
Dale E. Martin wrote:
>
> Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 09:51:57AM +0100, Sami Dalouche wrote:
> > > recommended) with PGCC. The minority who have a 386/486 now can't
> > > probably use
> > > these software because their CPU is too slow and if they want, they could
> > > use
> > > the src to compile the softs on them own ?
> >
> > The whole ideal of Linux is to be able to run on those old 386/486
> > systems, and I think that minority is a lot bigger than you think. Just to
> > point out, you think it's not good for them to run these packages on
> > 386/486, but making them compile them (which is way more CPU intensive) is
> > ok?
>
> I agree with Ben here - the binary distribution should remain _at least_
> 486 compatible, if not 386 compatible.
>
> But, if we get source depends and automated builds working, then we could
> do something like:
> "apt-get compile-install <insert app here>"
>
> Obviously, you'd tell apt in it's config what your compiler is and what
> flags to use.
>
> _That_ would be cool.
>
> Later,
> Dale
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