Pete Moscatt wrote:
It depends what your requirements are. If you are running Mandrake at home on a desktop PC, then the standard version as loaded by default should be fine. However, should you have special requirements such as extra security, or optimisation for many users, or if you have a multiprocessor machine, then you would have a need for different versions.When I have a look, I see there are a number of 2.6.8.1-24 available, being ones like ENTERPRISE, SECURE, SMP and there may even me a few more.
Now which one of these would I typically go for ? :-)
SMP = Symmetrical Multi-Processing Enterprise = Optimised for larger organisations Secure = should be obvious, for firewall use, etc
Normally the standard port of the kernel as supplied by Mandrake is suitable for all of those uses, anyway, but each variant is "tweaked" for more applicability to those areas.
On some motherboards, the "smp" version works better(even if the mobo is single-processor).
cheers Duncan
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