On Tuesday 25 February 2003 20:42, Tibbetts, Ric wrote:
Greg Meyer wrote:
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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 ?
Obviously, the project would have to be approached with some common sense. There are of course pieces that don't need to be processor specific.
Ric
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