2010/11/9 Egon Ashrafinia <[email protected]>: > On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 00:38:14 +0100 > Maarten Vanraes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Op dinsdag 09 november 2010 00:26:20 schreef Egon Ashrafinia: >> > Hey guys :) >> > >> > I'm new on the ML and now I have got something to discuss. >> > >> > In Mandriva 2010.1 and Cooker we have 2 sorts of Kernels. >> > >> > The first one is : kernel586-Desktop >> > and the other one is : kernel-Desktop (i686) >> > >> > Do we need i586? I mean I alwys use i686 without any problems. Maybe we >> > should remove i586 ... what do you think? >> > >> > Greeting >> > >> > Egon (Wubbbi) >> >> >> No, this has been discussed several times; some people need that kernel; >> because this software still runs on pentium machines and they are still being >> used. > > But in my optinion we cant always support old Hardware. The Problem is that > the i586 Kernel is not getting out the full Power of new CPUs like AMD K10 or > the Intel iX. Maybe we could make the i686 the default one and the i586 as an > option? I think that will be better for our "non-Pc-geek-users".
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