# > i386 have almost become a history. May be I'm wrong, but I don't see any
# > sense to run 2.1.xxx-2.2.x kernels on i386. The entry level is i486.
#
# I, for one, would be very disappointed if i386 support disappeared; it'd
# remove a lot of debugging possibilities for me, such as ESDI, etc. And why
# would we dump i386? It's not particularly hard to maintain...
Ummm, excuse me. I don't mean to burst into this conversation, but I've
been away for a while. Let me make sure of something,
We aren't SERIOUSLY considering removing 80386 support are we??? I mean,
we better not be. Thats is one of the things that makes linux shine above
the competition: you don't need to run it on a bleeding edge machine.
I _do_ run linux on i386's, 4 of them in fact (they do some stupid
networking functions, like DNS). I also run it on 2 486's, 4 pentium class
and 1 pii machine.
Dropping support for i386 would be, well, just plain stupid.
G'day!
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