On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 07:51:17PM +0200, Davide Carnovale wrote: > 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. > > regards > > Davide
Hi Davide, The directories I checked read: http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/x86/autobuilds/current-stage3-i686/ but the tarball states it's hardened: http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/x86/autobuilds/current-stage3-i686/stage3-i686-hardened-20130326.tar.bz2 Haven't personally used a x86 in years. -- Happy Penguin Computers >') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ supp...@happypenguincomputers.com 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting
