Hi group, I want to know from which version of suse, it comes with support of pentium 4 processor and since when? I recenly purchased suse 7.3 in india(infact i ordered it but did not get the distribution yet). and if that distribution does not come with support to pentium 4 processor, then i dont think i should go for it. -kunal
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 08:20:49AM -0000, Kunal Shah wrote: -> I recenly purchased suse 7.3 in india(infact i ordered it but did not get -> the distribution yet). -> and if that distribution does not come with support to pentium 4 processor, -> then i dont think i should go for it. It does, and you should. Michael -- "# chmod a+x /bin/laden" Michael Nelson San Francisco, CA
On Sat, 2001-12-22 at 02:20, Kunal Shah wrote:
I want to know from which version of suse, it comes with support of pentium 4 processor and since when?
If you wanted to, you could probably run SuSE 4.2 on a P4; there's not that much difference. Of course, SuSE 4.2 could only recognize and reliably use about 32MB of RAM and 2.1GB of disk space, but that's beside the point.
and if that distribution does not come with support to pentium 4 processor, then i dont think i should go for it.
Horsecrap. A P4 still understands the original 386 instruction set, and will thus run fine. It'll run better than Windows XP, too. Does Windows XP have explicit support for the P4? -- -=|JP|=- Need a good geek? I'm unemployed! '01 B15 SE/PP | http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ | < '95 SL2 Auto | cowboydren @ yahoo . com | _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
On Saturday 22 December 2001 22.06, Jon Pennington wrote:
On Sat, 2001-12-22 at 02:20, Kunal Shah wrote:
I want to know from which version of suse, it comes with support of pentium 4 processor and since when?
If you wanted to, you could probably run SuSE 4.2 on a P4; there's not that much difference. Of course, SuSE 4.2 could only recognize and reliably use about 32MB of RAM and 2.1GB of disk space, but that's beside the point.
and if that distribution does not come with support to pentium 4 processor, then i dont think i should go for it.
Horsecrap. A P4 still understands the original 386 instruction set, and will thus run fine. It'll run better than Windows XP, too. Does Windows XP have explicit support for the P4?
Hm. When the P4 was released it was quite a big story that linux installers would fail on the new chip because they couldn't handle the CPUID. But rest assured that was handled rapidly. I can't quite remember which suse version it was that was current then, but I do remember there was a fix for it, and all later versions have been able to handle it. Merry Christmas Anders
On Sat, 2001-12-22 at 15:33, Anders Johansson wrote:
When the P4 was released it was quite a big story that linux installers would fail on the new chip because they couldn't handle the CPUID.
Well, I didn't say anything about the installer, I just said it would run. :) IIRC, 7.1's installer fixed this issue, but my memory is a bit fuzzy...sticky bits and all. ;) -- -=|JP|=- Need a good geek? I'm unemployed! '01 B15 SE/PP | http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ | < '95 SL2 Auto | cowboydren @ yahoo . com | _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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