Re: [opensuse] Re: opensuse for 486

2007-10-01 Thread Richard Creighton
Per Jessen wrote: >> Hey, I'm all for it but I really don't think it is very likely in >> practice, as much as I hate to admit it. >> > > Oh, I doubt it too. 486s are now found mostly in embedded stuff, and > there are other distros catering for that market. My own 486 firewall > machine r

Re: [opensuse] Re: opensuse for 486

2007-10-01 Thread Per Jessen
Richard Creighton wrote: > What I hope and pray doesn't happen is that those that make the > decisions don't forget the roots and start making more changes that > obsolete older equipment just because it is older equipment. Couldn't agree more. > Change, for change sake is not always the bes

Re: [opensuse] Re: opensuse for 486

2007-10-01 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-10-01 at 17:51 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: That one has yet to bite me - but as we're mostly SCSI anyway, it might not have much impact :-) No, the majority of machines probably are SATA or PATA, not really SCSI. - -- Cheers,

Re: [opensuse] Re: opensuse for 486

2007-10-01 Thread Gabriel .
2007/10/1, Carlos E. R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > The Monday 2007-10-01 at 17:51 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: > > > That one has yet to bite me - but as we're mostly SCSI anyway, it might > > not have much impact :-) > > No, the majority of machines pr

Re: [opensuse] Re: opensuse for 486

2007-10-01 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-10-01 at 17:21 -0300, Gabriel . wrote: Don't worry, we already received your mail twice ;) Not everybody, I hope ;-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Mad

[opensuse] Re: opensuse for 486 (was: legalities)

2007-10-01 Thread Per Jessen
Richard Creighton wrote: >> Uh, I'm not sure I can quite follow you. If the openSUSE project >> built the distro for the 386 instruction set, the old 486 machines >> would still work fine. >> >> > However, I am pretty sure the project has not been built with that > instruction set in mind. T