[Gllug] Install problems again

[Chris Bell]

On Fri 10 Jan, Andrew Halliwell wrote:
> 
> > Apologies - badly phrased.
> > I should have said, it's not a newbie-help-list.
> > 
> > But this newbie will ask for help regardless:
> > (If you say RTFM, tell me where the F manual is)
> > I've got a laptop with a Celeron 500mhz chip: does this mean I should 
> > get a distro optimised for a 386 or what?
> 
> Celerons are cut-down pentium IIIs, so any x86 distro will work.
> (Pentium III is i686)
> 
> In fact, it may be possible that some of the newer ones are cut-down P4s.
> Not sure if cut-down PIIs were called celeron too, but either way, they're
> all i686 (and the minimum 32bit intel for some distros is i586 AFAIC. Most
> compile for i386, but some, like mandrake compile and optimise for 586)
> 
   The story I heard was that the P4 has seen significant modifications
since it was introduced, it is still being modified, and is still not
seriously considered for situations demanding reliability such as servers,
where a P3 is more usual.

-- 
Chris Bell


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