On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Rusty Carruth wrote:
I recently joined this list, not because I feel 'expert' but because I wanted
to know how the next release of Mandrake was shaping up, and this isn't a bad
place to find out. I am very glad I caught this thread. I'm currently running 2
AMD K6s and mandrake 6.1 with the 7.0 update, so I'm a bit behind the rest of
you. Updating is on my mind
My outlook is simple: I want to hear exactly what mandrake are going to do: are
they going to release in i586 & i686 separately, or plump for one or the other?
These pcs are with me until they cease to function, or fall beneath the minimum
specs in a way that hurts; I reckon that's 4-5 years, because increases in
available power won't leave any 100 Mzh bus machine on the scrap heap for a
while. Cutting them off in 8-12 months (the only time I heard mentioned) is
like telling me to buy another distribution
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Regards,
Declan Moriarty
Applied Researches - Ireland's Foremost Electronic Hardware Genius
A Slightly Serious(TM) Company
Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement.
> > I'm not so sure the 350 thru 600 K6-2's and 3's will go away that soon.
> > I build systems for a living and as of yet see no compelling reason to retire
> > my K6-2 450 as it performs nearly as well as most 850 900's do given the same
> > software etc..
>
> Well, Ken beat me to it!
>
> I was planning to say basically the same thing, except that I don't build
> systems for a living, and I don't have a K6-2. Instead, I currently use
> a 486 for my firewall (running LM7.0.1), and until someone GAVE me a dual
> p90 system I was planning on using another 486 as my file server. But
> I *will* be using a 486 as my syslog server.
>
> The point?
>
> Simple - just because its ancient does not mean a bunch of us won't be
> using it. And if I'm using a 486 after all this time, just think of
> how long folks will be using the much faster K6's!
