On 20.06.18 12:04, Simon Hobson wrote: > FWIW, even technical users can lack what some may think is “really > basic knowledge” - I fell that the most important thing I’ve learned > over the years is just how much I don’t know !
Despite using *nix exclusively for three decades now, linux for around two, matching a linux distro to my cpu requires more chip knowledge than I have. I remember grubbing about on the net to try to find out what sort of beast my: $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 6 model : 13 model name : VIA C7 Processor 1500MHz ... clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 32 bits virtual might be. The last line suggested that I needed i386, but line three hinted vaguely at i686, maybe. The internet was no help when I looked, some years ago. Taking a stab in the dark, I found that 686-pae runs fine on it, but how would one know in advance? The devuan ascii I run on my quad-core celeron host is also i686, as I figure it's new, and 686 has to be better than anything with lower numbers, right? Things were much more defined in my days of sysadminning a whole department's sparc servers and desktops. Erik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
