On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 14:38, fsanta wrote:
What's the difference between packages which say i386 i586 and i686?
I have a PII 300 and SuSE 8.1. Which should I choose, given a choice?
you would choose i686. From some old man pages for various compilers: Intel Pentium 386 = i386 Intel Pentium 486 = i486 (ok, those are no brainer's ;) Intel Pentium = i586 Intel Pentium MMX = n/a Intel Pentium Pro = i686 Intel Pentium II/III/IV/Celerons = n/a Where n/a just means that they had other names (e.g. "pentium4", "pentium3-sse", "pentium-mmx", etc.) Hope that helps some. -jeric -=JericAtSbcglobalDotNetwork=- 7:51pm up 49 days, 37 min, 9 users, load average: 0.22, 0.32, 0.29 "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" -Who will watch the watchers? --Juvenal 100 A.D. Vote against Total Information Awareness! Boycott Microsoft's Palladium!