> My suggestion would be for Mandrake to compile it and offer it only through > the Mandrake Store or ccccClub for $10 and find some way (even voluntarily) > to keep it off ftp servers. I'd pay the $$ to support Mandrake and get a > distro of that quality that will work on a 486.
It's an interesting idea, although I'm dubious on it's value to Mandrake. How many hours would it take to recompile all the RPM's to a less optimized state? Once they did, how many people would want a 486-optimized distro? These days, most folks look at Pentium/150's as very-low-end-might-be-too-slow-for-most-people machines, and even basic servers for things like routers and such are usually on Pentium/100+ machines... Let's say it only costs $10,000 (it's probably more man/machine hours/cost than that) to recompile everything (2,000 plus packages), and to reorganize things. At ten dollars a piece, it would take 1,000 people to purchase the CD's before MDK would even break even (and I truly doubt that there are more than say 2,000 or 3,000 people that would want such a CD set). -Tim -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Universal Networks http://www.uninet.info Christian Portal and Search Tool: http://www.faithtree.com Open Source Migration Guide: http://www.ofb.biz ============= "Christian Web Services Since 1996" ==============
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