RHEL and SUSE have to compile their binaries for the lowest common system, be that power3 or power4 I'm not quite sure. Since we can provide supported release stages at many levels we had the opportunity to do both.

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But enough work went into it that the x86 team was confident enough to move to it as their network-less install medium. The old command-line-based installer is still around via the minimal CD.

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