[64studio-devel] Re: 64Studio experience

[Lee Revell]

On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 07:08 +0200, Free Ekanayaka wrote:
> |--==> Daniel James writes:
> 
>   DJ> As for 64 Studio being out of sync with testing, that has started to
>   DJ> happen as we have gone into feature freeze for the 1.0 release. It may
>   DJ> be that we recommend people to use snapshot.debian.net if they don't
>   DJ> want to follow testing, after our 1.0 release - what do you think
>   DJ> about that, Free?
> 
> Yes, it's not a bad idea.
> 
>   >>Are you contemplating releasing a i686 32bit kernel?
> 
>   DJ> It's not a top priority for us at the moment, although I can see it
>   DJ> would be of benefit for users with recent 32-bit machines.
> 
> Not to  be sceptical, I'm just curious,  but is there some significant
> improvement compared to  unoptimised  kernels? Consider also  that all
> the other packages are not optimised for i686.

I would think the reason is that the kernel has more impact on system
performance than any other program, so if there's only one package you
optimize for 686, the kernel should be it.  Seems like the maintainance
cost to benefit ratio would be pretty good.

Lee