On Tuesday 25 February 2003 20:42, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: > Greg Meyer wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Tuesday 25 February 2003 01:27 pm, flacycads wrote: > >>really, how hard can it be to recompile the entire distro for > > > > different > > > >>architectures like Gentoo does, and post the iso's with an > > > > "unsupported" > > > >>disclaimer, if need be? IMO, they will loose a lot of users if they > > > > don't. > > > > Only Gentoo doesn't do it. You compile Gentoo yourself on your own box. > > All the distros release the source code. > I still think a show of community support could take that, and compile > processor specific versions... ;)
And I think that this would be nonsense. Maybe the kernel and Multimedia apps should be recompiled but thats it. How important is a athlon-xp optimized 'ls' ? What is so athlon-xp specific beside the special instruction sets ? Which app makes really use of it ? For ix86-64 it is totally understandable, but athlon-xp ? -- Regards Steffen ____________________ counter.li.org : #296567. machine: 181800 vdr-box : 87 ____________________ Please dont CC me, since if I have replied I'll watch the tread. Both mails will be filtered to the ML-folder. Thanks
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