[Gllug] Good up-to-date distro for mini-ITX?

[Julian Somers]

On 18:18 Wed 21 Jun     , Rich Walker wrote:
> Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> writes:
> 
> > Rich Walker wrote:
> >> Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> writes:
> >> 
> >>> John Hearns wrote:
> >>>> I have a VIA C3 processor on mini-ITX which I would like to run a modern
> >>>> desktop-oriented distro on.
> >>> CentOS has a i586 tree that would work.
> >> 
> >> Be careful about that - Mini-ITX isn't quite P5...
> >
> > I was under the impression that their new series the Via C3  were now
> > all i686 compatible. I know a large number of people are using CentOS
> > and the Asterisk at Home setup on these newer box's to build PBX's these days.
> 
> Lacks CMOV was the main problem I ran into...
> 

I have just remembered that we have had RAM failure in almost every one
of our EPIA PD series machines.

I assumed that it was a bad batch of RAM, or sloppy assembly.

But, is there any way that running an i586 kernel on these C3 CPUs might
have been cooking the RAM? 

Julian

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> >
> > I suppose if John told us what CPU it was, we could make sure.
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