On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 07:38:09PM +0200, Ike Devolder wrote:
If we limit our choice based on your CPU, then we need to limit based on the other CPU mentioned in this thread.
That should not be a consideration at all. What we need to do is think about what make our distribution worthy of being a distribution. Original the selling points were rolling release, vanilla packages and optimised binaries. We have lost the latter. Do we want to get it back?
Allan
Yes we want it back. I also have systems without SSE4 and if Arch is no longer usable on those I'll use distributions for 'older' hardware on those.
But for our day-to-day workhorses I would love optimized binaries.
-- Ike
Someone mentioned AVX2, but it seems there is still a patch needed for glibc. Solus added it very recently https://dev.solus-project.com/T503 and they have taken it from Clear Linux. -- Ike