Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:33:43 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/i386/net htonl.S ntohl.S Message-ID: <20041020183343.GA37078@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20041019220031.GA98675@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <20041019071102.GA49717@FreeBSD.org> <20041019073145.GA29746@thingy.tbd.co.nz> <20041019.084324.106215221.imp@bsdimp.com> <200410191541.54269.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20041019215007.GA13217@VARK.MIT.EDU> <20041019220031.GA98675@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:00:31AM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 05:50:07PM -0400, David Schultz wrote: > > Yes, and very few of those folks are likely to want a relatively > > large, non-realtime, monolithic, multi-threaded OS kernel, much > > less a userland that even vaguely resembles a standard FreeBSD > > installation. > > > > Every time this issue comes up, someone points out that in fact, > > FreeBSD still runs on the 80386 that they just threw out. > > However, nobody ever presents an important reason for *wanting* to > > run FreeBSD on an 80386. > > The only reason I am not running FreeBSD on an 80386 is that the PSU in > my 80386sx based computer gave up a few months ago (or at least > something power-related did.) Until then I was happily running > 4.10-stable on it and using it as a firewall/gateway. The question isn't would someone want to run FreeBSD on an 80386. The question is would one actually want to run RELENG_5 or 6-CURRENT on an 80386 given how much a dog it will be. I don't think the pro-80386 arguers have any idea how slow 5.3 is on a 80386. I think you would have quickly down-graded back to 4-STABLE on your 80386 after using 5.3 on it for a week. David Schultz summerized things nicely above. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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