-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Brad: > >> Probably because, like the AMD (32 bit) builds, there was >> insufficient benefit to warrant all the extra work (to say nothing >> of storage space) to do it. > > Then. may You know why they have chosen i486 instead of i386?
This has been decided for the release of "sarge" (around 2005). From lenny's installation guide [1]: > However, Debian GNU/Linux lenny will not run on 386 or earlier > processors. Despite the architecture name "i386", support for actual > 80386 processors (and their clones) was dropped with the Sarge (r3.1) > release of Debian. (No version of Linux has ever supported the 286 > or earlier chips in the series.) All i486 and later processors are > still supported and > We have long tried to avoid this, but in the end it was necessary due > a unfortunate series of issues with the compiler and the kernel, > starting with an bug in the C++ ABI provided by GCC. You should still > be able to run Debian GNU/Linux on actual 80386 processors if you > compile your own kernel and compile all packages from source, but > that is beyond the scope of this manual. [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s01.html.en#id2756691 - -- Johannes In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkzS9ZEACgkQC1NzPRl9qEWdPgCdGC1GCIDRs00Qc2hXWNFVmL+c 7Y8AnRm3qmTL/PEcQu8PRP/G4h2zLNGw =I9DZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4cd2f592.8010...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de