On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, JF Martinez wrote:
>If RedHat pushes towards resource hungry User interfaces like
>Gnome/KDE and installations in Python who are looooooong (at least the
>update was) on a Cyrix 686 at 133 Mhz (rated like a 166+) it seems
>there is little reason to continue using the -m486 flag for compiling
>since 486s seem far too underpowered for running (and installing)
>RedHat 6.2.
>
>The only reason for keeping -m486 would be if the compiler would
>generate buggy code with -mpentium.
>
>If RedHat is supposed to run on a 486 then RedHat should provide a
>user interface and an installation who are not undecently slow on a
>486.
FWIW, I am running RedHat 6.1 on a 486DX2/66 with 12Mb no
prob. No X of course because X would be too slow. In today's
day and age, a company like RedHat needs to have a product which
supports the masses, and isn't complex to maintain. Maintaining
15 different GUI's with 30 different window managers is quite a
chore, and they're likely finding that 90%+ of all of the users
are using KDE and/or GNOME anyway.
It can always be installed GUI-less, and is very easy to do
so. If one needs the GUI however, and doesn't want KDE/GNOME, it
is not difficult to upgrade from an older RedHat to a newer one
manually by hand. "rpm -F *" with a few more instructions is all
it takes, and you can keep your old GUI just fine. Or you can
install the newer system without a GUI, and then install your own
GUI off the net or another CD.
It really isn't fair I don't think to expect any distribution to
continuously support 50 different setups if 99% of everyone is
using 1 or 2 of the 50.
I can understand though how one would be upset if their favorite
dist stopped supporting something they considered a necessity.
One thing for certain though, is regardless of what makes the
dist or not, everyone on the RedHat mailing lists myself included
is always happy to help someone customize their setup by mixing
and matching things from different dists, or contrib.
So don't feel bad if your favorites get ditched from the
dist... where there is a will, theres a way!
Take care!
TTYL
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