Arch optimized for athlon-xp

gvre · 2004-03-11 11:56:55

Are there any plans for an athlon-xp optimized version of arch?

Arielext · 2004-03-11 13:14:08

Don't think so
The performance "boost" would be so small. And the number of users running this would also be to small to make it a healty community. But you can always make it yourself!

gvre · 2004-03-11 13:18:03

Ok thanks!! What about amd-64?

Xentac · 2004-03-11 17:19:31

AMD-64 may happen. Some of the developers would need to get AMD-64 machines though. You gonna buy me one?

Dusty · 2004-03-11 17:55:05

Xentac wrote:

AMD-64 may happen. Some of the developers would need to get AMD-64 machines though. You gonna buy me one?

What about on the flip side... if I got an AMD-64, could I be a developer?

sarah31 · 2004-03-11 18:14:55

potentially... iwas so anything is possible

Mr Green · 2004-03-11 18:42:15

Don't bother .....no real gain (quoting Mr X)

I think you want Gentoo......arrgghhhhhh :?

Mr Green

sarah31 · 2004-03-11 18:54:40

bah no i don't think the user wants that at all.

realistically though 64bit optimization would be a good thing as not many distros are right now

as for athlon-xp optimization one can easily dio that on their own but if you are going to do that you may as well use crux

Arielext · 2004-03-11 18:59:44

sarah31 wrote:

bah no i don't think the user wants that at all.
realistically though 64bit optimization would be a good thing as not many distros are right now
as for athlon-xp optimization one can easily dio that on their own but if you are going to do that you may as well use crux

but then I want Xeon and Itanium optimalizations as well and a PowerPC version of arch and I want to take over the world!

Dusty · 2004-03-11 19:05:17

sarah31 wrote:

potentially... iwas so anything is possible

Lazy ol' Sarah a developer!? :-D

Oh well, at least I know they're accepting help from the bass-ackwards prairies...

sarah31 wrote:

but if you are going to do that you may as well use crux

Sure sure, but who wants to be like you? :-P

gvre · 2004-03-11 19:24:30

AMD-64 are low cost now so if Arch can be AMD-64 optimized i think it will be very good. What about donations? I think that many of Arch users will donate for the Arch AMD-64. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Gvre

gsibble · 2004-03-11 20:36:07

I'd certainly donate for AMD-64 optimization for Arch.

-G

Arielext · 2004-03-11 20:54:31

I'm curious in how much this would make a difference in normal day use except the fact that we can say that we're (one of the) first to have a 64bit OS

Dusty · 2004-03-11 21:16:32

I suspect it would be quite an improvement. Although the 64 bit processors are backwards compatible with 32 bit software, wouldn't it make quite a different to be able to actually *use* all that power? Or is most of that stuff at the kernel level as opposed to the compiler level?

Dusty

sarah31 · 2004-03-11 21:30:35

actually arch would not be the first 64bit distro i belive suse had it done last year.

andy · 2004-03-12 10:41:04

Dusty wrote:

Xentac wrote:
AMD-64 may happen. Some of the developers would need to get AMD-64 machines though. You gonna buy me one?
What about on the flip side... if I got an AMD-64, could I be a developer?

I got an AMD64 - with AL running in 64bit mode ... and now ? ;-)

andy · 2004-03-12 10:43:11

sarah31 wrote:

actually arch would not be the first 64bit distro i belive suse had it done last year.

In fact Suse were the ones that did the real porting (yet, I still don't like their distro ;-) ...). As for other distros that have AMD64 versions : Mandrake, Debian, Gentoo and more (I beleive Turbolinux - there is a series of articles on www.osnews.com on that topic).

seratne · 2004-08-09 15:56:18

How about colocating an amd64 machine and letting the devs have access to it. Pooled resources and stuff. ssh and vnc for building and testing of packages

dp · 2004-08-09 18:21:27

seratne wrote:

How about colocating an amd64 machine and letting the devs have access to it. Pooled resources and stuff. ssh and vnc for building and testing of packages

who will sponsor the machine?
who will sponsor the bandwidth?

if you solve this 2, i'll login to this machine to build+maintain the repos for 64bit :-)

johnr · 2005-09-08 07:09:34

How much bandwidth would you need? Could you do this over 128K-256K?

I have a cable modem that gives me 4.5M down(to the house) and 384k up(from the house). If that would work, I might be able to work something out.

JR

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