[Mageia-dev] i686 must be Pentium II ?

Mon Sep 27 22:56:57 CEST 2010

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 07:01:25PM +0200, Florian Hubold wrote:
+> I think we should stay with plain old i586, but the mageia-light
+> thing sounds like a nice idea, i must say. We should not do what fedora
+> has done and abandon support for those older cpus at the cost
+> of what? 1% performance gain? C'mon ...
+Provided we stick to _lightweight_ apps. IMHO running a graphical
+desktop with less than 500 MhZ is not worth the effort if we use, say
+XFCE or LXDE. Better use really lightweight wms like awesome, dwm or
+xmonad. We should also stick to lightweight apps (mostly console apps
+and a lightweight webkit browser like jumanji. I’m biased, because
+that’s what I’m using all the time even on new hardware.
+
+That said, there are already specialized distro for this (like Crux)
+
+Regards,
+-- 
+Rémy CLOUARD
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