on 4-4-2008 4:26 AM Manuel Tuthill spake the following: > Hello, > > I've been trying to get in contact with some of the development team > regarding i586 support in C5, I was kindly pointed in this direction. > > Reading the archive I can see that it's not a planned feature excerpt below: > > "The problem is that we do not want to support i586 on c5 and forward > because the anaconda changes required to make install possible are much > harder than on CentOS-4. > > With the development of the c5 liveCD and that also depending on > anaconda, we do not think that i586 support is really worth the risk of > incompatibility that major changes to anaconda can cause. > > Also ... the C5 openssl and glibc do NOW build on i586, however they are > not guaranteed to do so in the future. We have already had the centos-4 > glibc NOT building on i586 and that causing problems in the past. > > We will support i586 on CentOS-4 until 2012, but I don't see us > supporting it at this time on CentOS-5. That could change." > > I'd just like to throw my 2pence/2Cents in and explain why I think it should > be supported, and then offer some help in developing it. > > While most people seem to think that i586 is totally obsolete, I still use a > few modern systems that use i586 instruction sets and may even consider a > few more. For example I run a Via Epia ME6000 (600Mhz) as a silent HTPC with > 1G ram. > > With the over abundance of processing power in a modern computer and the > proliferation of embedded type system running at home by hobbyists' and > enthusiasts for asterisk and other single application. Given that Chips like > the i586 Geode and Via Epia are popular it seems a little backward to me to > stop supporting it. > > Of course there are other distributions that will cover these. But I'm a > Centos Fan and would prefer to continue running it on all my machines rather > than only some. > > So to this end I'd like to try and get some movement behind this. Knowing > that first it looks like I'm going to have to get the powers that be to > agree that it could be included if enough work could be done. > > > Manuel I doubt that hijacking a thread will endear you to the developers! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_hijacking -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20080404/f3d6d5e3/attachment-0007.sig>