Why are there only i686 and i586 Versions of glibc and kernel?-- not "lite" (386/486 @ 400MHz+, 256MB RAM)

[Crutcher Dunnavant]

On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 22:31:36 -0500 (CDT), mlauterbach at mail.wtamu.edu
<mlauterbach at mail.wtamu.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 13:30:30 -0500, Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >I'd rather see something like, in staggered order of
> >dependancy:
> >
> >Core - (no, really, CORE. No X, no gcc, just the hard base.) Desktop
> >Development Multimedia Extras
> 
> I think that some sort of setup like this would be beneficial.  With the
> advent of advanced installation tools such as apt and yum the necessity to
> provide every package in the core has greatly decreased.  I know I don't
> like to download 4+ CDs if I only want to do a minimal install.  The only
> restriction I would put on the Core would be to try to make it fit on one
> CD.  A really stripped down Core will hamper new Linux users as much as
> the current setup.

Yeah. See, I never thought that new users would ever use ONLY Core.
They would use disks with Core, Desktop, Devel, Multimedia on them.
But thin boxes, like routers, VPN boxes, etc would use just Core.

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Crutcher <crutcher at gmail.com>
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