I'm looking for a current distro that I can put on my 386 right now! I've finally given up and decided I'll just do it myself using http://linuxfromscratch.org.
Aaron D. Priest Coastal Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Don Head Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 23:55 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Cooker-firewall] FW: [Cooker] i486 optimized? > > > > ?? that arch was last supported with 7.0... > > > > > > Myabe it's time to port 7.2 to 486 ... I know several > > > people that want > > > to use mdk as routeur on a 486 computer, unfortunately 7.0 > > > is a little > > > bit ... old > > > > The market is too small. > > Yeah, we all know that, but that doesn't change the > situation for the few of us that still have 486 boxes > laying around that we want to use! > > I've asked this quite a few times, and Mandrake has never > graced me (or anyone else that's asked) with a response: > > - Could Mandrake recompile the installation process and > base packages (that "minimal install" set) for i386 or > i486, so that those of us with older machines could at > least get it installed? Once that part is done, > recompiling packages for i386 or i486 is simple. > > We'd shut up after that! > > The same goes for SPARC, Alpha, and PPC. If you could > keep the installation process semi-current for all those > architechtures (maybe along the lines of a > [i486|sparc|alpha|ppc]-base-install-Freq), the world > would be a MUCH better place! > > I propose releasing a base install for each of those > archs at the same time (or not too long after) releasing > a final version of the i586 build, and doing the same > thing every time you release a i586 Freq build. > > Yes, that's right. So 8.1 would be: > > Mandrake81-i586-cd1.iso - 650MB > Mandrake81-i586-cd2.iso - 650MB > Mandrake81-i586-cd3.iso - 650MB > Mandrake81-i486-cd1.iso - 100MB > Mandrake81-sparc-cd1.iso - 100MB > Mandrake81-alpha-cd1.iso - 100MB > Mandrake81-ppc-cd1.iso - 100MB > > Seems like a lot of work, but it really shouldn't be! > The last 4 would just be the installation process and > base packages, rebuilt for their particular arch! > > We will rebuild the rest of the RPMS! We won't complain > anymore! This way, the base packages will be on the > same version number between architechtures, and we can > rebuild SRPMS and submit bugs/cooker reports for all the > archs in the same fashion we do with i586. > > I think this would do great things for Cooker and the > distro in general, as you'd get more (current) bug > reports on other archs, so you could fix the bugs quickly > in cooker and they'll be ready in case you ever want to > release a full other-arch distro. > > > > > Or Maybe SNF or ProSuite ( the server specialise pack ) might be a > > > better candidat. > > > > Yes SNF runs on i486, it's targetted for these computers. > > I thought the final was released for i586 only, and the > last non-i586 version was a beta? I find it kind of humorous that every time the subject of i386/i486 compiles or anything else along those lines is brought up, Mandrake employees don't respond to the seemingly valid points raised by us users. I thought I actually found a good way to have the best of both worlds, and took the time to write it out as best I could and post it to this list. All I want is to hear what you have to say about my ideas (in the e-mail above). I know you guys are busy and stuff, and if you had planned on getting back to me, I apologize. All too often though, if an e-mail doesn't get answered in the first 2 days, it'll get forgotten and never revisited. I'm just trying to make sure that someone sees the ideas I've offered. If I get a good response from Mandrake, it might actually shut me up for a while. =P To try and spread my idea and increase my chances of a response from a Mandrake employee, I'm cross-posting this to Cooker-PPC and Cooker-Firewall. The ideas I've expressed above regarding building minimal installs for different architechtures can apply to both the Cooker-PPC distro and the SNF distro discussed on Cooker-Firewall. I hope that for once I can actually receive a response on a subject that has been ignored for the past year, and that means a lot to myself and many others who do still use older hardware and alternative architechhtures. Don Head SAIR LCA, CIW-P, i-Net+, Network+, A+ Systems Administrator [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Web Designer [ 1 314 650-4056 ] [ AIM - Don Wave ] [ ICQ - 18804935 ] [ Yahoo - Don_Wave ]
