Hi Guys,
Thanks Manuel for stepping up and offering to help with the i586 work. I know that we had already done some work on this a long time back, Daniel doing most of the heavy lifting at the time.
Afaik, Daniel has been busy with RealLife [tm] issues, so I am not sure if he wants to stay as the centos-devel as point man for this project. If not, I will step in and get involved.
He did, however, ask a very important question - is there enough traction in the i586 world today to even consider the i586 port worthwhile ? Since most major platforms really are i686 ? I'd still like to see some answers to that question!
I do have some old i586 stuff ( things that came out from a LaCie 1U storage box Via C3, 500Mhz ) and a AMD K6-2 550Mhz Compaq Laptop from years gone by. Both of these can be made available if people want something central to test on / test with. Beyond that, we can make some builder threads available and if required a dedicated project on projects.centos.org with svn / trac and issue tracking.