XXI century and still using 386 packages...

[James Troup]

Alberto Núñez <nuakosta at gmail.com> writes:

> We are in 2005, with new technologies and amazingly fast systems...
> and we are using prehistoric system aimed packages.

All x86 Ubuntu packages are actually compiled tuned for pentium4
systems.  The only thing that's not enabled is the small number of
post-486 specific instructions (e.g. cmov) or extensions (e.g. SSE)
and they aren't actually useful for the overwhelming majority of code.
When they are useful (e.g. in media players, etc.), these instructions
or extensions are usually detected and used at run time.

-- 
James