On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 16:52, Tom Brinkman wrote: > The source rpms are available for everything and you can always > build 'em yourself. OTOH, how could a distro like Mandrake possibly > compile for each and every cpu and motherboard chipset combination? > Specially since some of the most recent cpu's, grossly overstate > their capabilities, and chipsets vary widely in their design and > performance. Examples, the recent fad of Via C(yrix) 3 processors > that report to be i686, but are really not even fully compliant i586 > cpu's, retaining many i486 characteristics and limitations. There's > also the P4's with their poor FPU capability, and that still don't > have decent motherboard chipsets to run on. > > If ya just gotta squeeze out a little more zip ... overclock ;)
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