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.
That's true,
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 runs fine
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 best
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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.
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2007/10/1, Carlos E. R. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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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
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The Monday 2007-10-01 at 17:21 -0300, Gabriel . wrote:
Don't worry, we already received your mail twice ;)
Not everybody, I hope ;-)
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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