Why are there only i686 and i586 Version of glibc and kernel? -- i386 is still around

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed Jun 2 14:23:11 UTC 2004


On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 04:01:17PM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> There is no talk of dumping support for i586 and later machines. Maybe
> binaries are not optimized for K6s, but you don't have to worry about
> those machines not being supported by main stream Fedora. Not sure where
> you got that idea.

I've been suggesting it. Or, not dumping it, but making those systems be the
focus of a Fedora Lite instead of Fedora Core. But it seems to be vastly
unpopular.

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