[Wolves] i386 why bother.

Ron Wellsted ron at wellsted.org.uk
Thu Sep 15 23:03:32 BST 2005


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David Morley wrote:
> I know this will sound really silly but who in their right mind in
> this day and age would run Linux on an i386?   More to the point why
> should your much faster machine be slowed by the software on it?  You
> can not run a gui on i386 so why not improved the base standard to an
> i586 for arguements sake?

This is one of the main reasons I run Gentoo, from a stage 1 install, on
my Athlon-XP.


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Ron Wellsted
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