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[Allister Gearon <al@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Monday 22 September 2003 18:58, fsanta wrote:
>On Monday 22 September 2003 16:47, Anders Johansson wrote:
>> On Monday 22 September 2003 16.36, fsanta wrote:
>> > Hi everyone. I just bought a new box with an AMD XP 2200 processor.YOU
>> > pulled down a big patch last night and I now have  k_athlon-2.4.20-100.
>> > Is this correct for 8.2?
>>
>> Yes
>>
>> > Also, what's the difference between the Intel and the
>> > AMD kernel anyway?
>>
>> The compiler options used to build it. The athlon kernel is built with
>> optimisations specific for the athlon instruction set, and the default
>> kernel is built with a generic pentium instruction set that all processors
>> can handle.
>
>Are there any strong reasons not to go with AMD rather than Intel? Are there
>any reliabilty issues? Financially AMD makes lot of sense and we are
> thinking of 18 new boxes like mine for our school lan which would be as it
> is now: 100% SuSE 8.2. We can pick up the boxes for Euros 400 whereas an
> PIV 2.4 is over Euros 600. Any other long term AMD users here?
>Cheers, Steve.
	Steve,
we have used AMD processors on SuSE boxes at my work place for over 5 years 
precisely for the same reason as you  (small company), and have had no 
problems to date (that could attributed to the processors).
Allister
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