> > >>I was wondering if there might be any plans to optimize 8.1 for use >>on an i486? I know you guys have been working hard on all the releases >>that are out; not to sound un-appreciative, just curious : ) >> >You can do that yourself if interested and have an idle machine. Pull all of >the source RPMS, chane your default architecture and rebuild the lot with one >command and much waiting, and same with the installer components (a bit more >work). Then do a makecd. Note that I don't speak from experience here, this >is theory only. (-: > I'm doing it on an alpha at the moment, I'm using a script I made to automatically install the BuildRequires for packages (hence I've been fixing many BuildRequires), store the buildoutput, etc. etc It's working rather well, I took a RedHat 7.1 / rawhide install on my alpha and am slowy converting everything to Mandrake packages.
When the Linux kit becomes available on the PlayStation 2, I might consider doing a port of Mandrake to that architecture too :-) >Come to think of it, having an SRPM of the installer stuff would be handy. > It's available, DrakX-8.1-1mdk.src.rpm Stefan
