On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 09:54:11AM +1000, Darryl Bond wrote:
> The main reason is that modern distributions are optimised for the 
> processor/glibc that it was installed on. It is very difficult to support 
> some of the older processors with this in mind. Keeping a full distribution 
> that will run on a 486 would be no joke.

Debian 3.0, released in july 2002, support 11 architectures and does
not use optimised binaries.

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Hans Ekbrand

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