XXI century and still using 386 packages...

[Vincenzo Ampolo]

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 11:37 -0800, Alberto N??ez <nuakosta at gmail.com>
wrote:
> We are in 2005, with new technologies and amazingly fast systems...
> and we are using prehistoric system aimed packages. How many people
> does use a 386 desktop computer? How many people use a 486 desktop
> computer? Even Pentiums, nobody surf internet today with a pentium
> (well, someone...)

Yes it is right. why not make linux-686 package as default instead of
linux-386.

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 11:37 -0800, James Troup <james at canonical.com>
wrote:
> 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.
> 
Excuse me but if i read the description of the linux-386 package i read:
Complete Linux kernel on 386.
This package will always depend on the latest complete Linux kernel
available
for 386.
Instead if i look into linux-686 description i read:
Complete Linux kernel on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV.
This package will always depend on the latest complete Linux kernel
available
for Pentium Pro/Celeron/Pentium II/Pentium III/Pentium IV.

They seems to be different as you said :-)