2010/9/27 Thierry Vignaud <[email protected]>: > 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. pgcc powah!
>> 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. Yupp, I thought they had made their way upstream since though? There was also a i486 release of at least of either mandrake 7.0, 7,1 or 7.2, wasn't there? :) -- Regards, Per Øyvind _______________________________________________ Mageia-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev
