[Bf-committers] i386 support

[Dave Plater]

On 11/26/2009 08:34 AM, The Jackal wrote:
> i noticed that ive only been able to find i686 versions of 2.50 alpha 0. are
> there any plans for a i386 version?
> i have an old hp 733mhz 384mb so my processor doesn't support sse2
> instructions. I love blender to death but i really want to use 2.5. 2.49b is
> amazing and i cant even imagine what 2.50 is like. please let me know if its
> possible.
>
>   
I don't know what distro you're running but I opensuse and I'm sure most
other distros build i586 and x86_64 packages. Certain packages like
glibc are offered in i686 versions as well to take advantage of newer
features. Any pentium will run i586 and I think i686 started at the
pentium pro. What might cause a problem is 384mb ram with the latest
distributions but I know from list messages that people with less ram
and 233MHz processors are running opensuse 11.1.
I am guessing you have a celeron cpu which should run i686 anyway, maybe
you don't have the right kernel installed.
Regards
Dave P