On 27 September 2010 20:36, R James <[email protected]> wrote: > Even the original Mandrake of 1998 was compiled for i586 (Pentium > Classic or newer)
Wrong! Original mandriva was compiled i386. It was when we "merged" with berolinux we targeted the i586 (spring 1999). Using an experimental compiler (egcs). At -O6. All of this landed in version 6.0 with the new glibc-2.1 and the new kernel-2.2. That was the distro where we defaulted to using udma. On all hard disks. Even those who didn't supported. Ah, me remembering the glorious days of mdk6.1 with chmouel chasing a critical kernel memory leak just days before the release. Hopefully Alan Cox saved us. That was a beautiful year :-) > so Mageia will never run on i386 or i486. Those > platforms are pretty much extinct and i386 can't do POSIX threads > anyways. i486 does. Did. At least fedora's glibc had patches for that. _______________________________________________ Mageia-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev
