On Monday of this week, more than 60 Ubuntu developers gathered in a hotel near Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport to plan Ubuntu's next release, codenamed Edgy Eft. The goal of the meeting is to set the goals for the upcoming release and to chart the set of steps that will be necessary to implement it.
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Member since:2005-07-08
Gnome, KDE, OpenOffice, Firefox(Linux), etc all require an interesting amount of ressoures.
And using newer CPU instruction sets will magically solve that how? Have you tried compiling any of those programs with different compiler flags and compared the performance (objectively)?
If you do find software that would benefit from using e.g. i586 instructions, I'm sure the Ubuntu developers would be very interested. There are some packages which certainly do benefit from specific compiler options (the kernel, glibc, various math and crypto libs); these are already optimized (check /usr/lib/i686 and /lib/tls/i686).
Hmm ok, you got it wrong. I never said they should compile programs with the i586/i686 instruction set to make the system usable. I meant they should target the i586/i686 architecture because anyway, Ubuntu wont run at a decent speed on OLD CPUs like a 386, 486...
Try using Gnome, KDE, OpenOffice, Firefox, etc... on a P200. It will be way too slow to be usable. So why would they support 386, 486 CPUs? It just won't work with them anyway. That's what I meant 
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2005-07-06
Gnome, KDE, OpenOffice, Firefox(Linux), etc all require an interesting amount of ressoures.
And using newer CPU instruction sets will magically solve that how? Have you tried compiling any of those programs with different compiler flags and compared the performance (objectively)?
If you do find software that would benefit from using e.g. i586 instructions, I'm sure the Ubuntu developers would be very interested. There are some packages which certainly do benefit from specific compiler options (the kernel, glibc, various math and crypto libs); these are already optimized (check /usr/lib/i686 and /lib/tls/i686).