RE: i586 Gnome for RedHat 6.1?



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce W. Bigby [mailto:bbigby@rochester.rr.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 5:34 PM
> To: gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject: i586 Gnome for RedHat 6.1?
> 
> 
> Can the GNOME people please provide a i586 version of the latest GNOME
> so that we Pentium owners don't have to rebuild the source 
> RPM's just so
> that we can make the most of our hardware? I and, I'm sure, 
> many Pentium
> owners would appreciate the added speed that i586 binaries would
> provide--not to mention the convenience.

Just out of curiosity, has anybody actually noticed a difference in speed
between i386 and i586 compiled RPMs?  I've got a P-II 400 with 128MB of RAM,
so EVERYTHING is fast.  It doesn't work, but it does so VERY quickly.  :)
	Greg



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