Comment 102 for bug 587186

(In reply to comment #16)
> Comment 15: Well argued.
>
> Another way to look at this is that 32 bit x86 is already a legacy
> architecture. No one who cares about performance should be using
> it -- all those power users long switched to x86-64. If you accept
> this argument then what we in Fedora should be doing is not making
> much effort to optimize 32 bit legacy systems at all. Rather, we should
> work on broadening support to as many old systems as possible by
> compiling for the lowest common denominator (i486 or i586 systems
> were probably the oldest ones that would have had enough memory to
> run mini Fedora spins).

hear, hear. I was proud of Linux in the "old days" when it truely supported old hardware. With my Via C3 and C3-2, I have to look at other solutions, perhaps even NetBSD.

I mean this will still support the Atom netbooks. I really dont think "the up to one percentage" gained by going from i586 to i686 was a good choice. I also have a Atom netbook.

Doesn't most newer Intel Atoms have the 64 bit extension?