On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 09:24:52AM +0100, Claudio wrote:
> Hello.
> I really like linux. And I really love Mandrake and its way to work!
> I guess 7.3 will be really special, for I'll see kernel 2.4.x, kde2.1, gnome
> with nautilus, all of the tipical & untipical servers, clients. The new gimp.
> Cups... it's really special.
> Lately I bought a dual-processor system (2x800 MHz Pentium III), and I find
> that it's very fast to compile from SRPM.
> Now the question: could I take a real advantage to compile for i686 instead
> i586? Will it really gain something like 10-30% or just 1-2% over i586?
You can compile for the i686 arch, but what your mileage will vary.
> If you think that it has a sense, as cooker will get in a state of "freezing"
> I could begin and compile it for i686... Just let me know if it appears
> stupid or significative? In affermative case, maybe I will need some help for
> such a work cause I'm really not what you could call a "linux-guru". Then you
> could resell that distribution for i686, too ;-)
We are not in freeze yet .. even so, we regularly fix things in freeze.
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