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 RetroDebian Live is a custom live distro built on **Debian Etch** for **retro gaming on classic x86 hardware**.
 
-It is made for machines like the **Pentium II** and **Pentium III**, with one goal:  
+It is made for **Pentium II** and **Pentium III**, with one goal:  
 deliver a **fast, light, period-appropriate Linux system** for old games, old GPUs, and old hardware experiments.
 
 This is not a modern desktop squeezed onto old hardware.  
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 - Debian Etch userspace
 - Custom 2.6.24-based kernel
 - Live boot with SquashFS + UnionFS
-- Lightweight Fluxbox desktop
+- Lightweight fined-tuned Fluxbox desktop
 - Fast startup and low overhead
 - Built as a base for 3dfx, Glide, UT99, and hardware test tools
+- Missmatched Voodoo 2 SLI support
 
 ## Current state
 
 The system already boots and runs as a real live distro with the custom kernel.
 
 The next steps are:
-- desktop polish
-- 3dfx integration
-- custom tools
-- Unreal Tournament 99
-- optional installer support
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+- More tools
+- MesaFX integration
+- Derived version with other games ( probably limited to demo because most of them arent free )
+- Online apt repository for iso self-update
+- improved / cleaned build pipeline 
 
 ## Philosophy
 
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 The current focus is on 3DFX Voodoo2 :)
 
-## Technical note
+## Technical notes
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+The project is built with a custom kernel, `live-helper`, Docker, and Jenkins, with the kernel and ISO handled as separate build stages.
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+The choice of Debian Etch is a compromise as it offers an official way to have *updated* kernel through etchnhalf (well.. still early 2.6 branch :) ) but still uses older user-space software. It allows better hardware compatibility with less overhead. 
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+The Desktop environment is carefully configured to provide a nice user-experience, far ahead from Debian Fluxbox default.
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+This imply a few hacks because we are using an old glibc version. Some games / tools will have to be patched because the kernel supports more feature than glibc expose. 
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+The Kernel is tuned for gaming experience, but not necessary for more fps. Resposivness matter more than FPS. Benchmark should focus more on 1% low FPS rather than medium FPS as it reflect more user experience.
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+All the components are built with pentium 2 optimisations (as to me its the minimum for a decent gaming experience).
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+If there is enough demand I might deliver versions for pentium 1 / K6, but thats not the priority.
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+3DFX Driver stack is manually cleaned and tuned from source code, and still have some room for improvment:
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+- Updated core based on current Forks ( this release already uses a not-too-old version but there is newer, and merging is better).
+- MMX ASM optimisations are enabled but not everywhere because there is some incompatibilities with Linux function calling. I will try to work on that but as I donc know how to code assembly, I am struggling, help would be appreciated !
 
-The project is built with a custom kernel, `live-helper`, Docker, and Jenkins, with the kernel and ISO handled as separate build stages.