On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 11:30:34AM -0400, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
Frankly, I don't think people recognize the _real_ reason for
trying to
keep i386/486 ISA compatibility. It's not to support old systems, but to
support i386/486 ISA embedded microprocessor cores in all sorts of black
box solutions. These solutions have full desktops/GUIs far more than you
may think.
All it takes is one major black box vendors to adopt Fedora and we're
talking over a 1% marketshare.
As I've said elsewhere, I think this niche would be better served by a
Fedora Lite distribution than by making Fedora Core do it. (In fact, I'd
include i586 with that.)
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