On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 12:28:10PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > Which kind of support are you speaking of? As for installation media, > > i really don't care. I fully agree <i686 is dying out and if the > > release media is built built for i686 only i have no problem with that > > either. If you really want to put Gentoo on a i586 there are a other > > ways to do it, too, but i don't think we should stop supporting i586 > > in general. > > Nobody has said that. So long as glibc/gcc/etc still work on i586, > we'll still provide the ability to use it on those machines. That > doesn't mean we'll "support" it. It's like GCC 2.x, which is still in > the tree. It's there. It's usable. It's totally unsupported.
That's exactly what i can perfectly live with (i do even have a real
i586 box that's not a pentium 2 ;-) ), thanks for clearing it up.
cheers,
Wernfried
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