Dear/Beste phk, Saturday, December 14, 2002, 10:14:20 PM, you wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alex writes: >> >>Dear/Beste Johnson, >> >>I read this on the advocacy list. >> >>Tuesday, November 19, 2002, 7:56:44 PM, you wrote: >> >>> Support for the 80386 processor has been removed from the GENERIC kernel. The >>> default FreeBSD kernel is now more optimized for modern CPUs. No longer do >>> you have to settle for performance draining compatibility with hardware you >>> haven't owned in a decade. >> >>I don't feel this is a good decision. (I still have a 486, act as a >>small server and a 286 witch is in storage) This basally means that >>any one who doesn't have the latest processor can't install FreeBSD. > No it doesn't mean that. > FreeBSD still runs on all 386 family CPUs, the only difference is that > if you want to run it on a 80386 you need to enable an option in > your kernel config file. > It will out of the box run on 486 and anything later. It means that you can not install FreeBSD on a 386 unless you have a 486+ machine that can compile a new FreeBSD system and have a way to get that version to the 386. My assumption was for such case. Lets say a home user with a pentium II with Windows 98 and his old 386 as a FreeBSD server. -- Best regards/Met vriendelijke groet, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
