[K12OSN] Project MueKow

[Jim McQuillan]

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Robert Arkiletian wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 20:30:53 -0500 (EST), Jim McQuillan <jam at mcquil.com> wrote:
> > > I too agree with Jim. But just for clarification PII's are 686's I
> > > believe. PI's are 586.
> >
> > yeah, I think you are right.  I stand corrected.  Doesn't change where
> > I stand tho :)
> >
> > Jim.
>
> This brings up an interesting discussion that has come up in the
> Slackware community. Pat Vokerding the developer of Slackware compiles
> everything to work on a 486 but optimizes it for 686's. If I can
> convey this properly he uses the -march=i486 and -mcpu=i686 compile
> settings. So it runs on a 486 but also is optimized if you have a 686.
> Best of both worlds. Slackware on old systems is fast. It uses simple
> init scripts like BSD.

I just heard this from somebody else in the last week or so.  In fact, I
think the Ubuntu guys build that way too.  It makes sense to me.

Jim.