On Tuesday 10 October 2006 11:13, Duncan wrote: > Personally, I'd say 686 is the lowest reasonable to support at this point. > Below that, try an appropriate binary distribution and save the days/weeks > of compiling. Of course, Gentoo is highly customizable, and folks could > try it on 386 if they wanted, but I don't believe it's worth supporting > below 686 at this point. That's personally. I'm sure there are folks > that would argue we should at least support 586, but I simply don't > believe it's worth it.
There are plently of people using VIA C3 class chips which are i586 in their home servers because they are cheap, but more importantly very quiet as they don't require CPU fans. -- Roy Marples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/Linux Developer (baselayout, networking) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
