On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 14:51 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > According to the release announcement the package cd's don't seem to > have an athlon version any more. > http://www.gentoo.org/news/20050808-annoncement-release-2005.1.xml > (the choices seem to be alpha amd64 ppc (32 bit) ppc (64 bit) sparc64 > x86).
Only the base arches get distributed on the mirrors due to space constraints. > However on http://tracker.netdomination.org/ there are package cd's for > a whole lot of other sub-arches - i686, athlon-xp, P3, P4 and more. Are > these official gentoo - if not can anyone tell me about their origin and > reliability? They were built by the Release Engineering team using the exact same specifications as the rest of the media. Currently, these are only available from the Friends of Gentoo e.V. tracker. We hope to have them available from the store shortly. Unfortunately, we just don't have the resources on our community mirrors for hosting them. > Also is "athlon-xp" compatible with "athlon"? Or should I go for i686? No. You need i686. Athlon XP added SSE instructions to the Athlon. > Actually using i686 could be a bonus as it would mean I could share > binaries between my desktop and my p3 laptop, which is compiled for 686. Sounds like a plan. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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