Am 02.04.2013 19:51, schrieb Davide Carnovale: > 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. >
If you're not low on system memory (less then 2GB) you really should go the the amd64 stage.
