Oleg said: > Hi > > Why doesn't Debian add two more architectures: P4 and Athlon4? A bit more > space will be used on Debian mirrors, but the bandwidth will not > increase (unless more people start using Debian) and the extra > maintenance in most cases will be limited to CPU-specific compiler > options. The obvious advantage is the speed increase from better > optimizations.
I don't see how those could be considered architechures. they run the same instruction sets. and it wouldn't be a bit more space, it'd be a LOT more space. running my own debian mirror for my former company just i386 for testing and stable last I checked was nearly 25GB(including source). the security tree was quite a bit less though. I would expect if someone were to add 2 more trees it would take another 15-20GB. Disk space may be cheap on some low end systems but if you want a reliable system that means raid, and usually also means SCSI. My former company had one of their 6-disk raid-10 boxes powered by 3ware kernel panic because of a failed disk this past week, so I am not convinced that IDE raid is reliable just yet. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
