as for the i486 only thing, my guess is because the kernel dropped support for 386 when 3.8 came out
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/02/2013 12:17 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > Oh, and "gentoo is fast" is a nono swear word these days. That's ricing > > :-) Nowadays we say the benefit of gentoo is USE so you get what *you* > > want :-) > > > > When I'm asked, I say that gentoo is extremely flexible and can be > tailored in almost infinite ways depending on its application. > > It's why I'm still using it on the desktop, maintenance time be damned. > I've tried other distros and always come back to gentoo. The lack of > flexibility with other package managers (or lack of being able to > replace the default package manager) on other distros is very > disappointing. Guess I've been spoiled too much... > > Dan > > >
