[Klug-general] Re: Using Linux (Fedora Core 1)
George Prowse
cokehabit2003 at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Dec 16 17:19:49 GMT 2004
Peter wrote:
> For Against
> Mandrake 4
> SUSE 2
> Ubuntu 1 1
> Gentoo 1 1
> Fedora 0
> Debian 1
> Novell Desktop 1
>
> It looks as though I'm going to give Mandrake a go.
>
> I was understood that my chip was an i386 chip Athlon. At various
> times Fedora has claimed that it is i586 and i686. According to
> the Control Centre it has successfully updated to a 2.6.9-1.681_FC3
> kernal on an i686 machine yet I originally loaded a i386 release.
> Could this be causing some of my problems?
>
> Peter
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If its an Athlon then its i686, although its still a version of the
enhanced i386 so for things like -mcpu= and -march= both will be i686 or
Althlon<XP/TBird>.
Some distro's use the i386 for their list of desktop architectures and
then give others like MIPS, SPARC, ALPHA, PPC but some give i386, i686
and the others.
George
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