$author = "Mick Boda" ; > > Before I start on Adam's "Tutorial" I'd just like to know what > architecture is recommended for an AMD Athlon XP 1700. > > It seems a shame to stick with an unoptimised i386 package, redhat have > an optimised -athlon' kernel which I think uses i686 which is actually > written for pentium processors and i586 is pentium and K6, but a K6 and > XP processor are worlds apart.
if a package has multiple builds your preference would be for k7 or failing that i686. ie. running "apt-cache search kernel-image" shows that debian builds kernels for i386, i586, i686, i686-smp, k6, k7 and k7-smp. you would want the k7 build, which is for athlon, duron, XP. hth marty note: smp = symmetric multi-processing. multiple CPUs, same RAM. -- Take these tears Wash your skin I'm havin' trouble breathin' Since you walked in "Million Tears" - Kasey Chambers -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
