Duncan wrote:
Anybody doing Gentoo on even a Pentium original is going to be compiling
for awhile unless they do GRP only, and that's inadvised as GRP isn't
security updated until the next release, six months later! A couple years
ago when I first started with Gentoo and was on the main user list, I
believe I saw a thread where a couple folks claimed to have done it on 486
mainly to be able to say they'd done so, taking weeks of course to do it,
even compiling 24/7, but a 386? IMO there are better ways to spend your
years... <g>
Personally, I'd say 686 is the lowest reasonable to support at this point.
Below that, try an appropriate binary distribution and save the days/weeks
of compiling. Of course, Gentoo is highly customizable, and folks could
try it on 386 if they wanted, but I don't believe it's worth supporting
below 686 at this point. That's personally. I'm sure there are folks
that would argue we should at least support 586, but I simply don't
believe it's worth it.
A couple of years ago (when we were still using gcc-2.95 I used to run
gentoo on my server machine which was a pentium-60 (with fdiv bug).
While it took a while to compile the bigger packages it was certainly
workable. I did it because I didn't have a better machine, not to be
able to say I did it.
Paul
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