On Saturday 11 May 2002 02:30 pm, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: > On Thursday 09 May 2002 09:31 pm, you wrote: > > i586 will work on machines with a Pentium class processor or newer. That > > is, anything newer than a 486. i686 will work on machines with a Celeron, > > Pentium II, or newer. Thus my AMD K6 box can use RPMs for either i586 or > > i686, but my AMD K5 box can only use RPMs for i586. > > I propose that Mandrake writes a program, if such thing does not already > exist, to test the CPU and tell the user which rpm to use, i486, i586, i686 > or god knows what is next. > > I propose that this program also be part of the os installation hardware > detection. The CPU is just a peripheral that requires its own driver, after > all! > > > Seedkum
Mandrake is one of the few distros that attempts to fix this issue by being Pentium or better compatible. The i686 issue was not created by Mandrake, but by some third party commercial builds. i686 builds according to what i heard have little, if any, benefit for anybody. If you are trying to install 8.2 on a 486 or a 386 as a desktop you "will be" dissapointed, if you had a theoretical 3 CD 8.2 i486 set you would still be disapointed as it would run like a dog - so would 98, 2000, me or xp. Thus i586 builds are fine to cover 98% of cases people want to try to load Mandrake onto. If i have explained this well enough it should be apparent that there is no real need for such a program. Michael
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