On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 07:01:25PM +0200, Florian Hubold wrote: > I think we should stay with plain old i586, but the mageia-light > thing sounds like a nice idea, i must say. We should not do what fedora > has done and abandon support for those older cpus at the cost > of what? 1% performance gain? C'mon ... Provided we stick to _lightweight_ apps. IMHO running a graphical desktop with less than 500 MhZ is not worth the effort if we use, say XFCE or LXDE. Better use really lightweight wms like awesome, dwm or xmonad. We should also stick to lightweight apps (mostly console apps and a lightweight webkit browser like jumanji. I’m biased, because that’s what I’m using all the time even on new hardware.
That said, there are already specialized distro for this (like Crux) Regards, -- Rémy CLOUARD () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
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