Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486

[Eugene Wong]

<snip>
> My proposal, if Red Hat decides to switch to i586 packages,
> is to recompile the whole distro for i386 and make it available for
> download. Of course, this might not be worth the effort as well... ;-))
>
> Best regards,
> Martin Stricker

Based on the things that have been said, I think that that is the *only* way 
to go. After all, you're all going to offer a slinky iso. You may as well go 
the whole way. It took me about 1 week to install Gentoo on a Pentium 180MHz 
64 MB. Therefore, spending about 1-4 weeks compiling RH for everybody on the 
Internet is a good use of computer resources. As it is there are very few 
people using i386, so only updating your version of RH for every *.2 would 
be just fine. Also, it's not as if RULE needs to release as quickly as RH.

Maybe you could have an installation option where people can install from 
sources. If the users have the time and resources, then why not compile 
everything?

One advantage of RULE compiling its own, is that it really helps to avoid 
the need to always update the installer based on the kernel and binaries.

The compatibility that RULE will keep, is the directory structure, package 
management, and other lower level stuff.

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