[nzlug] Stupid question department

[Michael Adams]

Why are most builds still compiled for 80386 chips? These chips are from
1985, ancient history in computer terms. There has to be a simple
answer. I can see the value of it for say an IPCop build but a desktop
distro running the latest KDE or gnome just won't work on i386 chips.

I beleive the advent of the 64bit architecture may see the demise of the
i386 builds but it isn't going to happen fast. Many projects are really
struggling with the rewrite for the 64bit build (OO.o and Firefox among
them).

-- 
Michael
 Those that can, do; those that can't, teach.