[Nottingham] Best Server Distro?

[Richard Ward]

AFAIK the i686 chip-set's instructions are a superset of the i386 (with 
i486 and i586 in the middle) so anything i386 will run on i(3/4/5/6)86, 
but it may not have certain optimizations turned on that are only 
supported in the more recent instruction sets. For example i586 added 
MMX (does everyone remember all those tacky PC World adverts where the 
customers were getting excited when they found out that the Intel chips 
they were buying had MMX Technology?). i386 will certainly be what you 
are after. If you are desperate for speed you can find a distro that has 
a specific version compiled for i686, but its probably not worth it.

Benjamin Crowe wrote:
> Ok thanks. Sorry if I sound dumb but I am really I suppose. :D
> 
> 2009/9/9 Sergiusz Pawlowicz <sergiusz at pawlowicz.name 
> <mailto:sergiusz at pawlowicz.name>>
> 
>     On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 22:42, Benjamin Crowe<sneblot at googlemail.com
>     <mailto:sneblot at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>      > Ok hehe first problem I hav just tried running Debian but I
>     downloaded the
>      > wrong version "doh" amd64 where as the machine just told me I
>     have a i686
>      > type CPU but the only version of debian I can find is i386 will
>     this version
>      > work with my CPU?
> 
>     yes, i386 is perfect for you.
> 
>     s.
> 
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