x386 in Fedora Core 2?

[Kevin Krieser]

Why not?

Why needlessly alienate some potential users for little gain?

I personally believe that one of the reasons some vendors may not
"support" older architectures is to limit their having to handle
"support" of old hardware.  If you're distribution is compiled for, say,
a Pentium or better, you eliminate hard to find 386 and 486 computers
and hardware that you may have to keep in a lab someplace to do
regression testing and reproduce problems.

Also, if an user has some old 486's that they need continued support,
your distribution is out of consideration if it requires a newer CPU.

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 11:37 AM
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Subject: x386 in Fedora Core 2?


Why is Fedora going to be still compiled for 386 architecture?   I would
think 
that it would be bumped up a peg or two.


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