[Mageia-dev] i686 must be Pentium II ?

Sat Sep 25 23:19:16 CEST 2010

On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, Giuseppe Ghibò wrote:
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+> > You are not seeing the bigger picture. Mageia is not just for desktop or
+> > netbook users or modern powerful servers, there are people using
+> > embedded systems that often still have i586 compatible cpus, ISA cards
+> > are still very common in industrial uses, etc.
+> >
+> > Personally I have a VIA C3 based system that I use as home server, and
+> > the C3 is only i586 compatible, not i686.
+> >
+> 
+> Frankly IMHO such hardware is pretty unusable on a modern distro. I think
+> maintaining the compatibility for older legacy hardware is a duty for
+> OpenBSD. I tried such (i.e. Mandriva) on older hardware, and it's really
+> really slow, even without the graphical stuff. 
+
+Again, you are missing the point, these machines are not desktop PCs 
+running a GUI, any modern Linux distro still runs perfectly fine with 
+64-128MB and 10-15 year old cpus when used for many headless purposes.
+
+There is no reason to artificially block Mageia from running on these 
+machines (and their are far more common than you think).
+
+When planning a distro you need to think inclusion, not exclusion.
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