Op dinsdag 09 november 2010 01:00:50 schreef Egon Ashrafinia: > 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". > > Greetings
the i686 _IS_ the default one for x86 cpus
