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On Saturday 15 May 2004 07:19, Matthew Miller wrote:
I was wondering about this. Is it still the case that i586 performs
_worse_ on non-original-Pentium systems than i386? (Or is that wrong in
the first place, or not relevant to kernels?)
Yes, as far as I know.
Which brings up this question: are there any i586 systems out there
with
enough RAM to run anaconda anyway?
Yes, plenty of them. The base issue is that things like nptl and such
aren't available in an i386 kernel anymore, which is what the installer
used to use. So the installer has to use the next step up that supports
everything needed, which would be i586. Sure they could use i686 and be
somwhat faster, but that would leave a lot of people out there unable to
install.
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