[Klug-general] Re: Using Linux (Fedora Core 1)

[George Prowse]

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